Country Position Paper: Statelessness in Iraq
CONTENTS
Summary of Main Issues ..................................................................................................................... 3
1.
Relevant Population Data ........................................................................................................... 4
2.
Iraq’s Nationality Law.................................................................................................................. 5
3.
4.
2.1
Gender Discrimination – Children Born Abroad
5
2.2
Stateless Children Born in Iraq
6
2.3
Deprivation and Reinstatement of Nationality
6
2.4
Naturalisation
7
2.5
Dual Nationality
8
Civil Documentation .................................................................................................................... 8
3.1
Barriers to Accessing Civil Documentation
8
3.2
Areas Not Under Government Control
9
3.3
Difficulties Experienced by IDPs when Accessing Civil Documentation
9
3.4
Children and a Lack of Civil Documentation
10
Populations Affected by Statelessness in Iraq ....................................................................... 11
4.1
Faili Kurds
11
4.2
Bidoon
12
4.3
The Dom (Roma)
13
4.4
Palestinian Refugees
15
4.5
Stateless Refugees from Syria
16
4.6
Other Populations Affected by or at Risk of Statelessness
17
5.
Documentation in Iraq .............................................................................................................. 19
6.
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................ 20
Cover photo: Iraq. Bidoon woman in process of gaining Iraqi nationality. © UNHCR/Rasheed Hussein
Rasheed