The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights

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The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights

mobilizes international action to end gender discrimination in nationality laws.

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Championing Equal Nationality Rights for All

The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights mobilizes international action to achieve law reform in the 24 countries that prevent mothers from conferring their nationality on their children on an equal basis with fathers; and to achieve law reform in the 40+ countries which deny women equal nationality rights with men. 

It's Time for Equal Nationality Laws

At their core, gender discrimination in nationality laws undermines women’s equal status in society and the family, while causing wide-ranging human rights violations, including statelessness. Without citizenship, children and foreign spouses are often subject to a range of restrictions in their job and education opportunities; their ability to travel, open bank accounts, own or inherit property; and their full participation in society generally. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be realized in the absence of gender-equal nationality laws.

Though such laws were traditionally the norm across the globe, significant progress has been achieved in securing gender-equal nationality rights. 75% of countries now have nationality laws that treat women and men as equals. It’s time for 100%.

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Voices for Equal Nationality Rights

"The problem of gender discrimination in nationality laws has a cure that is within our grasp. Collectively, let us rise to this challenge, do what it takes to achieve universal equality and consign this form of discrimination, once and for all, to the history books."
Filippo Grandi
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
“Women are penalized for choosing to marry non-citizens. We are calling for equality, for women to have the same nationality rights as men, nothing more, nothing less. We are not asking for charity. We are calling for our equal rights.”
Habiba Al-Hinai
Omani Association for Human Rights
“When the same citizenship card is given to both men and women, with the same color, same size, the same set of information, and the same type — then why are the RIGHTS emerging from such exact same document different for different genders? ”
Neha Gurung
Citizenship Affected Persons Network

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