Apply Human Rights

Right to equal rights with respect to the nationality of the children

 

Women should have equal right with men to pass on their nationality to their children. Nationality is critical to full participation in society. Women should not be subject to fewer rights than fathers to transmit nationality. Also in light of the child’s right to nationality it is especially important that a single mother can pass on her nationality to the child, to ensure he/she does not end up stateless.

INTERNATIONAL

 

 

Conventions:

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

Article 7, 8

 

 

UN, CEDAW, 1979

Article 9 para. 2

 

 

UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966

Article 24 para. 3

 

 

Declarations:

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

Article 15 para. 1

 

 

Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959

para. 3

 

 

General Comments:

UN High Commissioner’s General Comment no. 17, 1989

 

 

 

Report:

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Civil and Political Rights, including the question of religious intolerance, 2002

para. 61, 74 , 137