Introduction
T
he Syrian regime continues to be an essential and powerful factor
in the weakening of women’s roles and the denial of their rights. Over the
past decades, it has contributed to the promotion of gender discrimination
and the patriarchal system through its constant practices, its commitment
to deny women the right to grant their nationality and lineage to their children, and its policy of depriving Syrian Kurds and Syrian women of their
Syrian nationality to become foreigners and strangers in their own land.
The problem of statelessness in Syria is caused by multiple factors: the
most important of which is the conflicting national laws and the constitution with international agreements binding on the Syrian regime to abolish discrimination against women, including discrimination against ethnic
groups to deprive children of their rights, in a society trying to repair itself.
Another reason is the neglect of “opposition institutions” and civil society
organizations to find solutions for these children.
Warsheh Team
HUMANS WITHOUT RIGHTS
The Syrian initiative team to combat statelessness adopted the hypothesis
that “The unjust and discriminatory Syrian laws against Syrian women,
and the neglect of civil society, have resulted in the deprivation of Syrian
children of nationality and lineage.”, thus the research of “Humans without Rights” is an analytical study through testimonies of affected persons,
questionnaires and dialogue sessions. It encompassed many Syrian cities,
towns and camps, as well as an analytical study of the Syrian constitution
and laws on nationality with specialists in local and international law. This
marks the beginning of the search for solutions and the recognition of the
right of women to confer their nationality to eventually find a solution to
the problem of statelessness in Syria.
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