gender discrimination and statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- Digitaal
- Thesaurus
- emancipatie, wetgeving, recht, gezinnen, echtscheidingen, nationaliteit, verblijfsvergunningen, Noord-Afrika, Midden-Oosten, 21e eeuw, rapport
- Description
- 'In this report is shown how gender discrimination in nationality laws affects family unity, based on some of the key consequences identified during the research and illustrated through some of the testimonials collected. This will include exploring the problems stateless persons face in starting a family, unification problems, how the strains of lack of access to basic rights affects families both materially and psychologically, and how families have resorted to divorce and separation in a desperate attempt to reach a solution. .This report will also explain the background to gender discrimination in nationality laws and how it can lead to statelessness. After examining progress and challenges in each of the four countries analyzed, the report will conclude by offering recommendations that seem most applicable in the context to all relevant stakeholders. This report is based on interviews with 152 individuals across four countries: Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and Egypt. These interviews were conducted with both national females and stateless men, women and children. .Most of the interviews were conducted in the affected families’ households.'