DC Roundtable January 20: Ending Gender Discrimination in Nationality LawsThe Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, Women’s Refugee Commission, Equality Now and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in partnership with the United States Institute of Peace Invite you to the roundtable discussion Ending Gender Discrimination in Nationality...

Ensuring gender equal nationality laws is key to ending statelessnessIf statelessness is to be eradicated, it is vital that all States ensure that women and men have equal nationality rights – rights that govern one’s ability to acquire, change, retain and confer citizenship. Gender discrimination in nationality laws is one of the leading causes of statelessness, a...

Somalia UPR Pre-Session Statement (cc) United Nations Photo Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights statement during the Universal Periodic Review pre-Session on Somalia: The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (the Global Campaign) is a coalition of international and national organizations that promotes gender equality in nationality laws, so that...

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...