Nationality
Nationality Campaign Celebrates Arab Women’s Day
Al-Mustaqbal Newspaper: Lebanese organizations celebrated Arab Women’s Day and distributed the statement submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee:
http://www.almustaqbal.com/stories.aspx?storyid=273429
Al-Akhbar Newspaper: Naturalization and Demographic balance deny women their right to nationality
http://www.al-akhbar.com/ar/node/62396
Assafir Newspaper: Arab Women’s Day and the Nationality Campaign: Ghanem: denying women’s right contradicts with its existence
http://www.assafir.com/Article.aspx?EditionId=853&ChannelId=19229&Articl...
Claiming Equal Citizenship: The Campaign for Arab Women’s Right to Nationality
In 2006, WLP will stand in solidarity with partners in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Gulf regions to call for women's equal citizenship rights, including equal rights to confer nationality to their spouses and children. In the majority of MENA and Gulf countries, only men have the legal right to confer nationality to non-national spouses and children.
What Next for the Moroccan Campaign?: Interview with Rabéa Naciri, President of ADFM
The Moroccan Government recently introduced a new bill to reform the Nationality Code for Moroccan women and children. The proposed bill is coming up for vote in the Parliament around February 12th.
Interview with Wajeeha Al Baharna, President of Bahrain Women's Society, on the Nationality Campaign in Bahrain
By Anna Workman, Program Associate, WLP
What is the current situation in Bahrain right now as regards the nationality law?
Interview with Lina Abou-Habib, Director of CRTD-A, on Women's Right to Nationality
By Anna Workman, Program Associate, WLP
Why is the right to nationality an important issue for women in the Middle East and North Africa?
