Syrians for Truth and Justice, with the support of the National Endowment for Democracy, organized consultations and documented the perspectives of over 80 Syrian civil society representatives, activists, and civilians…
Stateless
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Editor’s PicksLegal reportsSyria's Constitutional ProcessSYRIAN VOICES FOR AN INCLUSIVE CONSTITUTION
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Executive Summary It has been 59 years since an unjust special census was carried out in Syria’s Kurdish-majority province of al-Hasakah, which resulted in thousands of Syrians being stripped of…
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Press releases & statements
A Complaint to Three UN Special Rapporteurs on the Loss of Evidentiary Documents by Syrians
On 8 October 2020, JFL, , STJ and TDA filed and submitted a complaint to three United Nations special rapporteurs. The complaint addressed the dire situation of Internally Displaced Syrians…
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Being a maktum[1], Dawran Ibrahim Khalil failed to legalize his status and get the Syrian nationality even though 57 years separate him from the special census conducted back in 1962,…
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Luqman Yousif Abdu is still unable to register his children because of the fact that he is a Syrian stateless Kurd, categorized under the maktumeen by the 1962 special census.…
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ll of Aziz’s 12 mates were accepted at the “Mathematics and Physics Faculty” in Deir ez-Zor University, except him, as he did not have a secondary school certificate, he returned…
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Being a stateless, maktuma, makes it impossible for her to obtain any education certificate. Still, Aheen Khalaf Oussi insisted to complete her secondary and university studies. Despite the lapse of…
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Written StoriesStories & Testimonies
“I’m Still Striving to Obtain Citizenship, for My Children not to Suffer the Same Fate as Me”
Poverty caused Hassan Haji Amin to drop out of school at an early age and enter the labor force to support his family. Being a stateless, specifically a maktum, directly…
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Executive summary An alarming increase in the number of newborns being abandoned in Idlib and northern rural Aleppo under different armed groups’ control has been noticed. STJ documented 40 cases…