Parliamentarians Commit to Advocate Gender Equal Nationality Laws & Combat Statelessness In November 2015 parliamentarians from around the globe convened in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss the root causes of statelessness and consider interventions for its eradication. Organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, UNHCR and the Parliament of South Africa, the...

Madagascar Poised to Remove Gender Discrimination from Nationality LawsAntananarivo, Madagascar, November 5, 2015 – Madagascar, one of 27 countries that deny women the right to confer their citizenship to their children, is poised to remove this gender discrimination from its Nationality Code, a move that would ensure all citizens have equal rights to confer...

Human Rights Violations Resulting from Gender Discrimination in Oman's Nationality LawStatement by the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights to inform the Universal Periodic Review of Oman The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights would like to respectfully raise the issue of gender discrimination in Oman’s nationality law for consideration during this...

Sept 22 Event: Achieving Equal Nationality Rights (Geneva)The Permanent Missions of People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, The Republic of Kenya, Portugal and the United States, in collaboration with OHCHR, UNHCR, Equal Rights Trust, and the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights have the pleasure to invite you to:   Tuesday, 22 September, 13h – 14:30H Light...

Bahamas Coalition Joins Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights The new Bahamas-based Citizens for Constitutional Equality (CCE) is now a coalition member of the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, an international initiative that advocates for the removal of provisions that discriminate on the basis of sex from all nationality laws. CCE, which held...