Title: Women, nationality and citizenship

Authors: Chinkin, Christine

Place: New York, NY

Publisher: UN. Department of economic and social affairs

Year: 2003

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Subject: Gender, Citizenship and Governance

Keywords: women, citizenship, human rights, law, sex discrimination

Abstract: This issue focuses on discrimination against women in nationality laws. It examines laws that differentiate between women and men in the acquisition and retention of nationality, and in relation to their children's nationality, highlighting the legal and practical disadvantages such laws cause.

URL: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/public/jun03e.pdf

Document type: Portal