On International Human Rights Day UN Agencies and Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights urge action to uphold gender equal nationality rights across the Middle East-North Africa Region
Citizens’ equal right to pass their nationality to their children is a fundamental human right, one that is essential to advancing gender equality, children’s rights and wellbeing, and sustainable development, and to preventing statelessness. While women were historically denied the right to confer nationality, over the past several decades most…