The questionnaire sought to examine the following:
- The Organizational capacity
- Procedures followed by the organization upon receiving cases of statelessness.
- Number of documented cases of stateless children.
- How they manage cases of survivors who were raped and became pregnant in detention.
- Reference Mechanisms for follow up of the cases.
- The role of the International Organizations.
By analyzing the questionnaire’s data, the following was found:
| Organizational Capacity:
- 43% of participating organizations have branches in other countries (excluding Turkey and Syria) and have the ability to communicate with donors
and rights stakeholder’s community, which can advocate for better conditions for women and children.
-The number of working women and volunteers in Syrian organizations
inside Syria is 457, which facilitates communication with affected women.
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| Cases of registered stateless children:
Three out of 21 respondents indicated they documented only 20 cases of
stateless children, and the rest of the organizations justified their failure to
register cases they received for several reasons, including:
- The lack of laws that allow registering stateless children.
- The community’s refusal to register stateless children.
- The stigma that accompanies most cases of stateless children.
- The lack of official birth registration centers.
- Parents’ lack of interest to obtain identification papers for the children.
HUMANS WITHOUT RIGHTS
While 9 organizations indicated that they had worked to provide support to
affected children through emergency humanitarian intervention (food aid
and health assistance), the rest of the organizations did not provide support
to the affected families (mother and child) because there are is no legal basis to register children.
To avoid the problem of missing children’s identification papers, that help
them to receive basic assistance, some organizations have adopted the
alternative measures to registering children under the name of a relative.
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