08 Aug Children on the Margins: The Impact of Depriving Children of their Right to Nationality and Legal Identity in Northwest Syria
A new report finds that, compounding the humanitarian crisis, hundreds of thousands of children living in opposition-held areas in Northwest Syria are being denied access to their rights to nationality and legal identity, resulting in profound deprivations of their most basic rights. As the report documents, if their rights to nationality and legal identity are not ensured, these children, and the adults they become, will remain living on the margins, vulnerable to the harms as associated with exclusion and statelessness. Read more.