Mauritania
Intergenerational statelessness among the migrant-descended / minority groups
In Mauritania, new birth registration practices risk perpetuating intergenerational statelessness for the Haratin and Black…
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Mauritania
Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination
In Mauritania, new efforts to strengthen birth registration risk perpetuating a historical caste system. Slavery…
Mauritania
Return & reintegration
Black Mauritanians attempting to return to Mauritania find themselves unable to register their children or…
Mauritania
Legal gender discrimination
Mauritania’s nationality law denies Mauritanian women equal rights with men to confer nationality on children…
Montenegro
Intergenerational statelessness among the migrant-descended / minority groups
Montenegro hosts groups of people who were displaced by the Balkan Wars of the 1990s,…
Montenegro
Blocked access to reproductive healthcare
In Montenegro, gender and racial discrimination intersect to block access to sexual and reproductive healthcare…
Morocco
Legal gender discrimination
Morocco reformed its 1958 Nationality Code in 2007 to allow women to confer nationality to…
Morocco
Marital status discrimination
The CRC noted in 2014 that in Morocco, unmarried mothers could transmit their names to…
Morocco
Hospital documentation practices
In Morocco, to get a birth certificate parents must pay hospital fees and present both…
Morocco
Harmful social stigma through bureaucratic practice
In Morocco, if the parents cannot produce a marriage certificate, some registrars have come up…
Morocco
Administrative blockage for children of mixed status parents
For migrants in Morocco, both the legal and marital status of one or more parents…
Morocco
Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination
In Morocco, civil registrars have disallowed birth registration of Amazigh names. A 2022 submission to…