--Source WUNRN
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN REPORT ON DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN ON NATIONALITY,
INCLUDING IMPACT ON CHILDREN
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Excerpts: Conclusions & Recommendations
72. The right to nationality is a fundamental right for everyone - women, men, and children - and must be regarded as such by all States. Equal national rights are an essential dimension of ensuring women's human rights and crucial to preventing statelessness......Constitutions and nationality laws must therefore ensure the full enjoyment of women's equal right to nationality and introduce safeguards to prevent statelessness. Despite positive developments in some countries, nationality laws in many others still discriminate against women.....Discrimination against women in nationality-related matters is still prevalent in law and practice.
(a) Withdraw all reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women that impede women's enjoyment of their nationality rights on the same basis as men, in particular their reservations to Article 9. and ratify relevant international human rights instruments including the optional protocols providing for individual complaints.
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(WUNRN Insert)
CEDAW Article 9
1. States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality. They shall ensure in particular that neither marriage to an alien nor change of nationality by the husband during marriage shall automatically change the nationality of the wife, render her stateless or force upon her the nationality of the husband.
2. States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men with respect to the nationality of their children.
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(i) Take all measures necessary to ensure that all girls and boys are registered immediately after birth, without discrimination based on sex, race, disability, social or other status. Marriages should also be registered in a timely manner.
(j) Ensure equal access to documents used to prove nationality, in particular passports, identity documents, and birth and marriage certificates. Laws and practices requiring women to secure the consent and assistance of their husband, husband's family or father in order to obtain nationality documents should be amended, including those that require the husband's consent to add children names to the mother's passport......
(n) Protect women human rights defenders involved in nationality-related campaigns and ensure effective representation of women in all reforms to nationality law, whether at national, regional or international level.
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