Submission on Bahrain to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, Bahrain Women’s Union, and Equality Now submittted supplemental information for the consideration of the Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding Bahrain’s compliance towards every child’s right to acquire a nationality. The submission focused on the denial of the child’s right to acquire a nationality in violation of Articles 2, 7 and 8 of the CRC, as a result of gender discrimination in the nationality law of Bahrain.