Subject Area
Gender/Sex
Migration
Refugee/Asylum
Source
UNHCR
Type
Reports
Location
International
Year Published
2025
Summary
UNHCR, ‘Background Note. Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness’, 2025
Abstract
Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an annual background note on gender equality in nationality laws related to the conferral of nationality on children. Nationality laws that do not grant women equal rights with men to confer nationality on their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for
UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness. This background note presents the most up-to-date information available to UNHCR and UN Women as of March 2025.
