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. 154