Nationality Campaign
@EQL_Nationality
The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights works to end gender discrimination in nationality laws through its international coalition of NGOs & activists.
Join people around the world demanding an end to discrimination against women in nationality laws. 🌍 Your voice matters! ✍️Sign here: chng.it/z8VM4KdBWr #EqualNationalityNow
In 24 countries, women cannot pass citizenship to their children, and in at least 40, women can't confer it to non-citizen spouses. These restrictions strip access to other rights, like education or healthcare, says Catherine Harrington, @EQL_Nationality ipsnews.net/2025/07/protec…
Inequalities in nationality laws deepen inequality for generations. To achieve #SDG10 we must end gender discrimination in nationality laws. Equal rights for mothers & fathers to pass nationality = equal opportunities for all. #HLPF
In 24 countries, women cannot pass citizenship to their children, and in at least 40, women can't confer it to non-citizen spouses. These restrictions strip access to other rights, like education or healthcare, says Catherine Harrington, @EQL_Nationality ipsnews.net/2025/07/protec…
Spain Secretary of State for International Cooperation @Eva_Granados re Spain's commitment to feminist financing for development: “This is a critical moment for the feminist agenda.We have a strong commitment..& are always looking towards international feminist cooperation” #HLPF
🌍 Stateless people live in uncertainty — with no country to claim them and no path to citizenship. 📰 @BostonGlobe highlights our staff attorney Samantha Sitterley on why the Stateless Protection Act matters. ✨ Statelessness is solvable. 🔗 Link in bio
1/8 The horrors of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians ratchet up unabated. In this piece, I reflect on bearing witness while trying to find more impactful ways to resist and take direct action against the forces of genocide and empire: amal-dechickera.medium.com/from-bearing-w…
I spoke to one of our field researchers in Gaza at @EuroMedHR. He told me, “I swear, I nearly collapsed in the street today from hunger" I don’t know how we keep going, honestly, but I know why.
Amid relentless Israeli attacks and a deepening starvation in #Gaza, we turned to our team on the ground and asked: How do you keep going? How do you continue working under such impossible conditions? These are some of their answers ⬇
Starting now, GCENR will be elevating why gender-equal nationality are ESSENTIAL to sustainable development at the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. #HLPF #SDG5
We are thrilled to have participated in Eswatini’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Stakeholder Consultative Meeting, hosted by the Ministry of Justice & Constitutional Affairs!
Around a quarter of countries still have nationality laws that deny women the same rights as men to acquire, retain, or change their citizenship, or to pass citizenship onto their children or foreign spouses, ✍️Maithreyi Kamalanathan, @equalitynow ipsnews.net/2025/07/gender…
Gender discrimination in nationality laws is the canary in the coal mine for gender equality. When nationality laws discriminate on the basis of gender, they implicitly ascribe women a second-class status, says Catherine Harrington, @EQL_Nationality ipsnews.net/2025/07/gender…
Every person deserves the right to a nationality. Every woman deserves equal rights before the law. The @equalitynow and @EQL_Nationality Proposed Select Draft Articles show governments how to get there. 📥 Download now buff.ly/2np9efF #Beijing30 #NationalityLaw
At UN #HLPF, @UAEMissionToUN highlights UAE's constitution guarantees equality between women & men. Yet, UAE is still 1 of only 24 countries where women lack the right to pass citizenship to their children on an equal basis w men. We stand ready to support reforms. @mofauae