4- International community organizations
Respondents indicated the futility of dealing with international community
organizations and attributed the reason to their inability to bring change in
a number of Syrian issues since the beginning of the Syrian revolution. On
the other hand, some placed the greatest burden of responsibility on the
international community, as they indicated a number of points of duty that
they should work on, in coordination with the three aforementioned parties, to establish the right of women to grant citizenship and to guarantee
nationality for stateless children:
- Pressuring countries to recognize the papers and documents that will
be issued by the civil registries that will be created.
- Pressuring the Syrian regime to recognize the papers and documents
that will be issued by the civil records that will be created.
- Empowering Syrian civil society organizations to work on registering
and documenting children who are not registered and stateless, in accordance with the rules and official conditions.
- Pressuring the Syrian regime to change discriminatory laws against
women and amend them in accordance with Syria’s legal obligations.
- Ensure the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 132533, which urges the Security Council, the Secretary-General, Member States and all other parties to take the necessary measures in matters
related to women’s participation in decision-making processes and the protection of women from physical violence, discrimination and other items.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security
HUMANS WITHOUT RIGHTS
Through the previous analysis of the questionnaire forms, we can highlight
several points that the participants referred to:
- In regard to the gender distribution of respondents, we note the
wide difference between female activists’ knowledge of statelessness, as
well as their direct follow-up to cases, and their knowledge of the solutions
and problems faced by children and their mothers.
- Increased numbers of statelessness after the Syrian revolution.
- The negative impacts on women and children are the same during
the pre- and post-revolution stages.
- Respondents unanimously agreed on the right for women to grant
citizenship and lineage.
- Emphasizing the need to eliminate discriminatory laws against
women, the most important of which are laws on the granting of citizen-
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