The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3 Moreover, 30% of non-registered individuals were born to a father who was naturalised in 1994. This group’s situation is problematic given the Maronite League’s challenge of the 1994 Naturalisation Decree (No 5247). The decree, which had granted nationality to 202,527 individuals, was brought before the State Shura Council and the case was later forwarded to the Ministry of Interior. This situation led in 2011 to the denaturalisation of 200 persons, keeping the issue of the transmission of nationality by naturalised fathers uncertain. Nevertheless, most cases brought before the courts later on have been resolved in favour of registering children born after 1994 to naturalised fathers. Those who were born before 1994 were often rejected by courts, and this corresponds to 36% of children born to a father naturalised in 1994. Figure 9-Causes of statelessness Maktoum Al Qayd (22%) are the second main profile of stateless persons in the city. Nearly half of Maktoum Al Qayd respondents (45%) were born to a father who was himself not registered, confirming that non-registration is a major component of statelessness today, and constitutes a sort of new wave after the 1994 naturalisation decree solved, albeit controversially, most of the historical cases of statelessness48. Finally, if we do the basic maths, it turns out that more than two thirds of the population of stateless individuals have a straightforward case, with either a Lebanese father, or a Lebanese father naturalised in 1994 before they were born, or a Lebanese grandfather. In other words, a large 48 Refer to Appendix D for more details on the 1994 Naturalisation Decree. 32