Nationality and Cases of Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa
to refugees – both Syrian and Palestinain, from
Syria. To acheive this they have utilizied community
centres, various forms of community outreach (eg.
Radio broadcasts) and run mobile legal clinics and
mobile information sessions throughout the country.
By February 2015, over 145,000 individuals had
received ICLA services (including information and/
or legal assistance) with regard to birth registration in
Lebanon 202.
In Morocco, women married to sub-Saharan African
men can face hurdles in registering the birth of their
child.203 Although the law provides for access to birth
registration for all children born in the territory and
the rules on acquisition of nationality are such that
if the mother is Moroccan, the nationality or origin of
the father is irrelevant, problems do occur in practice
when these families approach the authorities. It would
appear that discriminatory attitudes on the part
of some civil registry officials makes them reluctant
to carry out the birth registration procedure. Wider
problems experienced in their interactions with the
state may also put the family off attempting to register
the birth to begin with. While, again, this should not
202 - Norwegian Refugee Council, Birth Registration Update,The Challenges
of Birth Registration in Lebanon for Refugees from Syria, 2015, access at http://
www.nrc.no/arch/img.aspx?file_id=9192763&ext=.pdf
203 - Women’s Refugee Commission, Our Motherland, Our Country. Gender
Discrimination and Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa, June 2013.
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