Morocco

Morocco reformed its 1958 Nationality Code in 2007 to allow women to confer nationality to their children (but not to their foreign spouse), in response to a long-standing demand of the Moroccan women’s movement. In a 2012 report to the CMW, the government of Morocco claimed that the reform had resolved a situation that had caused many problems, for mothers and children alike, with birth registration and residence.
In 2023, the Moroccan family law stipulated that for a marriage between a foreign man and Moroccan muslim woman to be recognized the man must convert to Islam. In 2022, CEDAW expressed concern that while Morocco had introduced a bill amending and supplementing the Nationality Act in 2017 to allow Moroccan women to confer citizenship on their foreign spouses on an equal basis with Moroccan men, the bill had not been adopted. As of 2025 this legislation still had yet to be adopted.