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A Loss for Gender Equality and Equal Nationality Rights in The Bahamas
A Loss for Gender Equality and Equal Nationality Rights in The Bahamas The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights is deeply disappointed by the failure of the public referendum in The Bahamas on June 7, which sought to end discrimination on the basis of sex and enshrine the principle of equality between women and men in the Bahamian Constitution. Three of the...
A Yes Vote for Equality: Statement on Referendum On Gender Equality in The Bahamas
A Yes Vote for Equality: Statement on Referendum On Gender Equality in The Bahamas The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights welcomes the historic opportunity for the citizens of The Bahamas to remove sex-based discrimination from the Bahamian Constitution in next week’s National Referendum. The Bahamas is one of only two countries in the Western Hemisphere...
Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Togo: Sex Discrimination in the Nationality Law
Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Togo: Sex Discrimination in the Nationality Law In this submission, Global Campaign Steering Committee member Equality Now and the Togolese NGO Questions de Femmes provide information to the Twenty-Sixth Session of the UPR Working Group of the Human Rights Council to inform the Universal Periodic Review of Togo. The...
Bahrain Civil Society & Government Discuss Achieving Women’s Nationality Rights at Global Campaign Conference
Bahrain Civil Society & Government Discuss Achieving Women's Nationality Rights at Global Campaign ConferenceFebruary 16-17 the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights held the Gulf Regional Conference on Citizenship Laws: The Right of Women to Confer Nationality to Their Children in Manama, Bahrain, in partnership with Bahrain Women Union and Equality Now...
Human Rights Violations due to Syria’s Nationality Law: Universal Periodic Review Submission
Human Rights Violations due to Syria's Nationality Law: Universal Periodic Review SubmissionThe Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion made the following submission to the 26th Session of the Human Rights Council to inform the Universal Periodic Review of the Syrian Arab Republic. Syrian women cannot confer...