daughter turned 12 and sought to enrol in public school, which denied her enrolment because she did not have Jordanian citizenship. T has also struggled to provide for her daughters who do not have any citizenship. She has paid high fees to send her daughters to private schools and provide them with private health care. T divorced her husband five years ago. Her ex-husband took her daughters’ temporary identification cards, the only documents her daughters had with photo identification. T is now left with absolutely no proof that she is the mother of her daughters. T has gone to great lengths to regularize the status of her daughters. After her divorce, she obtained a family book, but remains unable to list her daughters therein because she cannot prove that she is the mother of her daughters and cannot pass her citizenship to them. T has worked with women’s rights organizations and lawyers, and has sought private audiences before the Royal Diwan, the Ministry of Education, and the courts. Three years ago, King Abdullah II passed a decree stating that children of Jordanian mothers should receive equal treatment as children of Jordanian men. This measure does not address the fundamental problem of the gender-discriminatory Jordanian nationality law. Nevertheless, the King’s decree is having a positive impact on T’s family. Her daughters can now attend public school without having to obtain a humanitarian authorization for them to do so. T lives in fear for her daughters. While her 19 year-old U.S. citizen daughter was able to obtain a driver’s license, her 18-year old stateless daughter cannot. Her stateless daughters cannot travel outside of Jordan and cannot even move freely within Jordan. T must accompany her daughters to travel by bus to other parts of Jordan in order to explain to police at checkpoints why her daughters do not have any identification documents. T is grateful that she has been able to provide her daughters with education. But without identification documents and citizenship, she worries about whether they will be able to get jobs. Nabila (Syria) Nabila, a Syrian citizen, has one daughter from a Malian man she had married in Syria. Nabila and her husband agreed to divorce several years into their marriage on condition that Nabila would be able to keep and raise her daughter. Nabila has not seen her husband since then. Nabila realized there were problems with her daughter’s citizenship status when her daughter started to go to school. Nabila then learned she could not pass Syrian citizenship on to her daughter and that her daughter did not have any proof of Malian citizenship through her father. At that time, Nabila knew the primary school director and managed to enrol her daughter there for her studies. When Nabila’s daughter finished the 8th Grade, Nabila was again able to enrol her daughter in secondary school through her personal contacts with the Ministry of the Interior. Her daughter successfully passed the baccalaureate exam. Further problems arose, however, when Nabila’s daughter sought to attend Damascus University. At first, Nabila’s personal connections did not work. The university officials insisted that Nabila obtain proof that her daughter is a Malian citizen in order to enrol her as a foreign student. 6