Rama and her mother, Lebanon. © UNHCR/Jordi Matas RamaΦ Rama was born in Lebanon to a Lebanese mother. However, Rama is stateless. Rama’s father is stateless and her mother, like all Lebanese women, is denied the right to pass her nationality to her child. Lacking identity documentation because of her stateless status, Rama cannot travel freely and faces many obstacles. Because Rama is stateless, it is unlikely she could sit for the public exams required to become a doctor. “I feel that Rama has no future. The situation of stateless people in Lebanon should change so that they can exist and live with everyone else in society.” – Rama’s mother G E N D E R D I S C R I M I N AT I O N A N D C H I L D H O O D S TAT E L E S S N E S S “All my friends go to places and I could not go to them. I feel sad because I don’t have an ID and all my friends have an ID. I want my job when I grow up to be a baby doctor, because when the baby is sick, I want to help them.” – Rama 13