South Korea
Marital status discrimination
In South Korea, according to a 2018 NGO report, legally a child born out of…
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South Korea
Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status
In South Korea, the government has refused to register births of children of foreign nationals…
South Korea
Blocked access to reproductive healthcare
In South Korea, disabled women and girls have difficulty accessing reproductive healthcare, which poses a…
South Sudan
Gender inequality in women’s independent access to their own ID
In 2021, CEDAW recommended that South Sudan ensure women are not subject to any additional…
Suriname
Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status
In Suriname blocked access to birth registration for children born to foreign parents has been…
Suriname
Legal gender discrimination
Until 2014, Suriname’s 1975 Law on Nationality and Residence did not allow mothers to confer…
Syria
Legal gender discrimination
Syria’s nationality law is based on descent through the father. This is part of the…
Syria
Deficient consular civil registration services
Over 300,000 Syrian children have been born to parents in exile since 2011. Birth registration…
Syria
Marital status discrimination
In cases where Syrian women have children outside of wedlock, or as a result of…
Syria
Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination
In Syria ethnic minority groups, such as the Dom, Alawite and Druze, face discrimination that…
Syria
Registering minorities and stateless persons as foreigners
In Syria, the Kurds were stripped of citizenship in 1962 and given the status of…
Syria
Babies born to nations without states
In Syria, Palestinian refugees experience intergenerational transference of statelessness through the birth registration process. Most…