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…
Stateless
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Press releases & statements
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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…
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Written Stories
Kurdish-Kurmanji: “Pelika sor a ku pê re bû, yek ji sedemên rêderdiya wî bû”
by wael.mDema ku "Mamo" xwendekarê zanîngehê, ji aliyê hêzên ewlekariya Sûriyê ve rastî lêdan û pîskirina bi peyvan hat, ji ber ku ew yek ji Kurdên Sûriyê yên bê nasnametî "ejnebî"…
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When he was a university student, Ma’mou was beaten and humiliated by the Syrian security services agents, just for being a stateless Syrian Kurd. He once was slapped in the…