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UNHCR Lebanon Statelessness Update March 2014

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March developments

  • The statelessness unit provided individual counselling on birth registration to refugee parents of 967 Syrian newborns.
  • Twenty-four lawyers, who work on civil status and nationality issues, attended an introductory meeting organized by Frontiers Ruwad Association to introduce a UNHCR-funded legal aid project on statelessness. This project will provide assistance to stateless persons for strategic nationality cases, as well as late registration of civil status.