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Network of Statelessness Victims in al-Hasakah (NSVH)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Network of Statelessness Victims in al-Hasakah (NSVH) is an independent initiative led by the victims themselves. It provides a comprehensive framework for coordination, solidarity, and knowledge exchange among those who were stripped of Syrian nationality or born without a civil registry due to the Special Census of 5 October 1962, and the subsequent exclusionary policies.<\/p>\n

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The Network seeks to transform the injustice inherited for more than six decades into organized collective work, enabling victims to represent themselves, narrate their experiences, and pursue their claims while guaranteeing the right to nationality, establishing legal recognition, and putting an end to deprivation across generations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

NSVH adopts a comprehensive and inclusive rights-based approach, promoting recognition, reparation, institutional reform, and guarantees of non-recurrence, along with emphasizing equality and non-discrimination between women and men with respect to the rights related to nationality and civil status, including passing the nationality to children. These principles guide the Network\u2019s work in legal protection and individual accompaniment\/support, documentation and memory-building, advocacy, legislative reform, integrating the issue into truth and transitional justice processes.<\/p>\n

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Why NSVH?<\/span><\/h5>\n

NSVH was established in response to the painful reality of hundreds of thousands of people\u2014mostly Kurds\u2014being stripped of their right to citizenship under the 1962 Census. This gave rise to two main categories of stateless persons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Ajanib<\/em><\/strong> al-Hasakah: <\/strong>Registered in special books, and issued red cards labelling them as \u201cforeigners<\/em>\u201d in their own homeland;<\/li>\n
  2. Maktumeen al-Qayd:<\/em><\/strong> Left entirely off the records, without any documents proving their legal existence.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    By 2011, more than 517,000 people were estimated<\/a> to be stateless. Legislative Decree 49 of 2011, restored the nationality to the majority of those in the \u201cAjanib<\/em>\u201d Category, yet over 150,000 people \u2014mostly Maktumeen<\/em>, remained outside the framework of nationality.<\/p>\n

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    Thousands of families inherited the consequences of deprivation across generations. Children grew up without legal documents or official identity, deprived of legal personality<\/strong> and the rights it entails: access to education, healthcare, employment, property ownership, freedom of movement, representation, and participation in public life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Driven by this perspective, NSVH\u2014as an independent, victim-led initiative\u2014reframes the issue within a human rights framework, treating it as a collective wound requiring recognition and comprehensive redress. It provides a unified voice for advocacy, protection, dignity, and reform, and represents a practical step toward a future where no child is born without a name or a homeland.<\/p>\n

    The term \u201cvictims of statelessness\u201d encompasses those deprived of nationality or born outside the civil registry due to the 1962 Census and its aftermath, regardless of administrative classification\u2014whether Ajanib al-Hasakah<\/em>, Maktumeen al-Qayd<\/em>, or other successive categories subjected to deprivation.<\/p>\n

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    NSVH Vision: <\/span><\/h5>\n

    A society where dignity of victims of statelessness and their families is upheld through recognition, truth and justice, and in which full citizenship and guarantees of non-recurrence are achieved as pillars of a fair and comprehensive peace in Syria.<\/p>\n

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    NSVH Mission: <\/span><\/h5>\n

    Organizing and empowering statelessness victims and their families to represent themselves and advocate for their rights through legal protection and individual support, documentation and memory-building, advocacy and legislative reform, and the integration of the issue into truth and transitional justice processes. Strengthening capacities, partnerships, and early monitoring mechanisms to ensure equality and non-discrimination, while breaking the cycle of deprivation across generations.<\/p>\n

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    NSVH Values: <\/span><\/h5>\n