WUNRN
NO COUNTRY, NO RIGHTS: GENDER
DISCRIMINATION & STATELESSNESS
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Link to Full 2013 27-Page Report:
The Women's Refugee Commission and the Statelessness Program at
the University of Tilburg (Netherlands)
are launching a report, Our Motherland, Our Country: Gender
Discrimination and Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa.
The report calls for an end to gender discrimination in nationality
laws. Such gender discrimination arises when women cannot acquire,
change, retain or pass on their nationality to their children and/or their
spouses on an equal basis as men.
Twenty-nine countries around the world, 11 of them in the
Middle East and North Africa, still have discriminatory nationality laws that
make it impossible for women to transfer their nationality to their
children, or to their non-national spouses. These laws render people stateless—and
severely threaten their access to healthcare, education, jobs and even
marriage.