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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging his support for the passage of the bill on women's reservation in Parliament, in the upcoming Monsoon Session, reported news agency ANI on Monday.

Only 11.8% of members of Parliament in Lok Sabha are women. In contrast, Nepal has 32.8% representation of women in the legislative Parliament, while in Bangladesh there is 20% representation of women in Parliament.

Citing this data from “Women in Politics 2017 map” brought out by the Inter Parliamentary Union and UN Women, the ‘National Alliance for Women’s Reservation Bill’ recently demanded that the BJP-led NDA government must take up the long-pending issue in the coming monsoon session of Parliament and table the Bill in the House.

“There are 96 women in both Houses of Parliament. In Lok Sabha, out of 543 MPs 65 are women and in Rajya Sabha, there are 31 women members out of 243 MPs,” a 'fact sheet’ put out by the Alliance states to reinforce its point. Led by women organisations, the Alliance has stated that “the Women's Reservation Bill seems to have completely disappeared from the agenda of the present NDA government even after their election promise of 'not 33 but 50%'."

Click here to read the full article published by Times of India on 16 July 2018.

An election commission representative has informed that the ECP’s aggressive registration drive in collaboration with Nadra and civil society had registered as many as 3.8 million women voters in recent months, compared to the initially identified 12 million women voters who were left out of the electoral rolls.

Nighat Siddique, ECP’s Additional Director General of Gender Affairs, was speaking at a dialogue, organised by Sindh Commission on Status of Women (SCSW) in association with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on political participation of women and electoral violence, here on Friday. The seminar was attended by women candidates — independent and those contesting elections from different party platforms — and civil society activists.

Click here to read the full article published by Dawn on 11 July 2018.

An election commission representative has informed that the ECP’s aggressive registration drive in collaboration with Nadra and civil society had registered as many as 3.8 million women voters in recent months, compared to the initially identified 12 million women voters who were left out of the electoral rolls.

Nighat Siddique, ECP’s Additional Director General of Gender Affairs, was speaking at a dialogue, organised by Sindh Commission on Status of Women (SCSW) in association with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on political participation of women and electoral violence, here on Friday. The seminar was attended by women candidates — independent and those contesting elections from different party platforms — and civil society activists.

Click here to read the full article published by Dawn on 11 July 2018.

An election commission representative has informed that the ECP’s aggressive registration drive in collaboration with Nadra and civil society had registered as many as 3.8 million women voters in recent months, compared to the initially identified 12 million women voters who were left out of the electoral rolls.

Nighat Siddique, ECP’s Additional Director General of Gender Affairs, was speaking at a dialogue, organised by Sindh Commission on Status of Women (SCSW) in association with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on political participation of women and electoral violence, here on Friday. The seminar was attended by women candidates — independent and those contesting elections from different party platforms — and civil society activists.

Click here to read the full article published by Dawn on 11 July 2018.

An election commission representative has informed that the ECP’s aggressive registration drive in collaboration with Nadra and civil society had registered as many as 3.8 million women voters in recent months, compared to the initially identified 12 million women voters who were left out of the electoral rolls.

Nighat Siddique, ECP’s Additional Director General of Gender Affairs, was speaking at a dialogue, organised by Sindh Commission on Status of Women (SCSW) in association with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on political participation of women and electoral violence, here on Friday. The seminar was attended by women candidates — independent and those contesting elections from different party platforms — and civil society activists.

Click here to read the full article published by Dawn on 11 July 2018.

An election commission representative has informed that the ECP’s aggressive registration drive in collaboration with Nadra and civil society had registered as many as 3.8 million women voters in recent months, compared to the initially identified 12 million women voters who were left out of the electoral rolls.

Nighat Siddique, ECP’s Additional Director General of Gender Affairs, was speaking at a dialogue, organised by Sindh Commission on Status of Women (SCSW) in association with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on political participation of women and electoral violence, here on Friday. The seminar was attended by women candidates — independent and those contesting elections from different party platforms — and civil society activists.

Click here to read the full article published by Dawn on 11 July 2018.

On the margins of the UN High-Level Political Forum, UN Women, UNICEF, UNHCR and the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights joined the Permanent Mission of Tunisia and the Office of the Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations at a side event, calling for the urgent repeal of gender-discriminatory nationality laws.

Although 196 countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and 189 have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), discrimination against women in nationality laws persist in some countries, undermining the rights of women and children around the world.

For instance, 25 countries continue to discriminate against women in their ability to confer their nationality on their children on an equal basis as men, leading to statelessness when children cannot acquire nationality from their fathers. In addition, an estimated 50 countries deny women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality, including the ability of women to confer nationality on their non-national spouses. Without citizenship, children and foreign spouses are often subject to a range of restrictions in their job and education possibilities, their ability to travel, and to open bank accounts, own or inherit property.

Under the theme, “Realizing Gender-Equal Nationality Rights: Regional Developments and Good Practices”, the side event built on the first Arab League conference devoted to advancing gender-equal nationality rights held in Cairo in 2017. This unprecedented convening served as the basis for the historic Arab Declaration on Belonging and Identity endorsed at the Arab League Ministerial Conference in 2018, which calls for undertaking reforms to uphold gender-equal nationality rights; the removal of reservations to CEDAW Article 9 on women’s equal nationality rights; and national plans for the implementation of the Arab Declaratio

Today’s event took place at a time when a number of other regional efforts are underway to fulfil gender equality in nationality laws. For instance, the African Union is in the process of finalizing a draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Right to Nationality. The Protocol calls on Member States of the African Union to uphold equal nationality rights and as well as the elimination of statelessness. Similarly, the Economic Community of West African States is implementing its 2015 Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on the Eradication of Statelessness, which is dedicated to eradicating gender discrimination in nationality laws in line with CEDAW.

UN agencies speaking at the side event urged countries to seize the momentum, while ensuring that no one is left behind, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Source: UN Women

On the margins of the UN High-Level Political Forum, UN Women, UNICEF, UNHCR and the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights joined the Permanent Mission of Tunisia and the Office of the Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations at a side event, calling for the urgent repeal of gender-discriminatory nationality laws.

Although 196 countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and 189 have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), discrimination against women in nationality laws persist in some countries, undermining the rights of women and children around the world.

For instance, 25 countries continue to discriminate against women in their ability to confer their nationality on their children on an equal basis as men, leading to statelessness when children cannot acquire nationality from their fathers. In addition, an estimated 50 countries deny women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality, including the ability of women to confer nationality on their non-national spouses. Without citizenship, children and foreign spouses are often subject to a range of restrictions in their job and education possibilities, their ability to travel, and to open bank accounts, own or inherit property.

Under the theme, “Realizing Gender-Equal Nationality Rights: Regional Developments and Good Practices”, the side event built on the first Arab League conference devoted to advancing gender-equal nationality rights held in Cairo in 2017. This unprecedented convening served as the basis for the historic Arab Declaration on Belonging and Identity endorsed at the Arab League Ministerial Conference in 2018, which calls for undertaking reforms to uphold gender-equal nationality rights; the removal of reservations to CEDAW Article 9 on women’s equal nationality rights; and national plans for the implementation of the Arab Declaratio

Today’s event took place at a time when a number of other regional efforts are underway to fulfil gender equality in nationality laws. For instance, the African Union is in the process of finalizing a draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Right to Nationality. The Protocol calls on Member States of the African Union to uphold equal nationality rights and as well as the elimination of statelessness. Similarly, the Economic Community of West African States is implementing its 2015 Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on the Eradication of Statelessness, which is dedicated to eradicating gender discrimination in nationality laws in line with CEDAW.

UN agencies speaking at the side event urged countries to seize the momentum, while ensuring that no one is left behind, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Source: UN Women

On the margins of the UN High-Level Political Forum, UN Women, UNICEF, UNHCR and the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights joined the Permanent Mission of Tunisia and the Office of the Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations at a side event, calling for the urgent repeal of gender-discriminatory nationality laws.

Although 196 countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and 189 have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), discrimination against women in nationality laws persist in some countries, undermining the rights of women and children around the world.

For instance, 25 countries continue to discriminate against women in their ability to confer their nationality on their children on an equal basis as men, leading to statelessness when children cannot acquire nationality from their fathers. In addition, an estimated 50 countries deny women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality, including the ability of women to confer nationality on their non-national spouses. Without citizenship, children and foreign spouses are often subject to a range of restrictions in their job and education possibilities, their ability to travel, and to open bank accounts, own or inherit property.

Under the theme, “Realizing Gender-Equal Nationality Rights: Regional Developments and Good Practices”, the side event built on the first Arab League conference devoted to advancing gender-equal nationality rights held in Cairo in 2017. This unprecedented convening served as the basis for the historic Arab Declaration on Belonging and Identity endorsed at the Arab League Ministerial Conference in 2018, which calls for undertaking reforms to uphold gender-equal nationality rights; the removal of reservations to CEDAW Article 9 on women’s equal nationality rights; and national plans for the implementation of the Arab Declaratio

Today’s event took place at a time when a number of other regional efforts are underway to fulfil gender equality in nationality laws. For instance, the African Union is in the process of finalizing a draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Right to Nationality. The Protocol calls on Member States of the African Union to uphold equal nationality rights and as well as the elimination of statelessness. Similarly, the Economic Community of West African States is implementing its 2015 Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on the Eradication of Statelessness, which is dedicated to eradicating gender discrimination in nationality laws in line with CEDAW.

UN agencies speaking at the side event urged countries to seize the momentum, while ensuring that no one is left behind, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Source: UN Women

On the margins of the UN High-Level Political Forum, UN Women, UNICEF, UNHCR and the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights joined the Permanent Mission of Tunisia and the Office of the Permanent Observer for the League of Arab States to the United Nations at a side event, calling for the urgent repeal of gender-discriminatory nationality laws.

Although 196 countries have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and 189 have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), discrimination against women in nationality laws persist in some countries, undermining the rights of women and children around the world.

For instance, 25 countries continue to discriminate against women in their ability to confer their nationality on their children on an equal basis as men, leading to statelessness when children cannot acquire nationality from their fathers. In addition, an estimated 50 countries deny women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality, including the ability of women to confer nationality on their non-national spouses. Without citizenship, children and foreign spouses are often subject to a range of restrictions in their job and education possibilities, their ability to travel, and to open bank accounts, own or inherit property.

Under the theme, “Realizing Gender-Equal Nationality Rights: Regional Developments and Good Practices”, the side event built on the first Arab League conference devoted to advancing gender-equal nationality rights held in Cairo in 2017. This unprecedented convening served as the basis for the historic Arab Declaration on Belonging and Identity endorsed at the Arab League Ministerial Conference in 2018, which calls for undertaking reforms to uphold gender-equal nationality rights; the removal of reservations to CEDAW Article 9 on women’s equal nationality rights; and national plans for the implementation of the Arab Declaratio

Today’s event took place at a time when a number of other regional efforts are underway to fulfil gender equality in nationality laws. For instance, the African Union is in the process of finalizing a draft Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Right to Nationality. The Protocol calls on Member States of the African Union to uphold equal nationality rights and as well as the elimination of statelessness. Similarly, the Economic Community of West African States is implementing its 2015 Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on the Eradication of Statelessness, which is dedicated to eradicating gender discrimination in nationality laws in line with CEDAW.

UN agencies speaking at the side event urged countries to seize the momentum, while ensuring that no one is left behind, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Source: UN Women