Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 makes birth registration the focus for improving legal identity for all. Since the adoption of the SDGs, the link between legal identity and the fight to end statelessness has been strengthened. That is why SDG16.9 has come to be about more than birth registration. Rather, it is about the importance of government identification systems and good …
In this blog I come back to the issue of discriminatory nationality laws as they affect women and their children, causing an increased risk of statelessness. I wrote previously about the impact of such laws in Nepal and Iran, although they are not the only states who still have discriminatory nationality laws. There has been some progress recently in states …
I have written before about discriminatory nationality laws, specifically in relation to Nepal. But Nepal is not the only country with this problem. There are 25 countries in the world which still have discriminatory nationality laws. Among them are Brunei, Kuwait, eSwatini, Liberia, the Bahamas, Barbados and Iran. Iran has recently been in the news for proposals which are set …
