Gender discrimination remains written into nationality laws. This discrimination turns families into legal exceptions—blocking access to rights, security, and belonging.
The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights mobilizes international action to advance law reform in the 24 countries that prevent mothers from conferring their nationality on their children on an equal basis with fathers, and in more than 40 countries that deny women equal nationality rights with men.
The Legal Atlas on Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws is a visual global overview of countries with gender-discriminatory nationality laws, alongside detailed country-specific data for the 24 countries where women cannot confer nationality on their children on an equal basis with men, including the legal frameworks and policies that shape access to rights.
GLOBAL OVERVIEW
AMERICAS
ASIA PACIFIC
MIDDLE EAST& NORTH AFRICA
SUB-SAHARANAFRICA