Iraq
Legal gender discrimination
Iraq reformed its Constitution in 2005 and nationality law in 2006 to allow Iraqi women…
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Israel
Registering minorities and stateless persons as foreigners
Israel has created an apartheid structure which repudiates the citizenship of the Palestinian-Arab community living…
Israel
Ad hoc documentation for children of non-resident mothers
In 2012, in Israel migrant mothers were being given unofficial hospital-issued birth notices hand-written in…
Israel
Hospital documentation practices
In 2006, migrant women in Israel found access to birth registration for their babies blocked…
Israel
Migration enforcement within birth registration process
In 2013, the CRC expressed concern about reported cases of migrant families in Israel being…
Israel
Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status
In 2012, the Israeli government claimed in its court documents that it did not have…
Israel
Mandatory DNA testing for multiply marginalized groups
In 2013, the CRC expressed concern about reported cases of migrant families in Israel who…
Israel
Temporary identity, migration management, and statelessness solutions
In Israel there is a sizable population of children, known colloquially as “sabra ghost”, who…
India
Religious discrimination
In India, Muslim and other ethnic minority populations have been made stateless by their discriminatory…
Kazakhstan
Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status
Before 2019 children of undocumented migrants and stateless persons in Kazakhstan could not be registered…
Lebanon
Marital status discrimination
Lebanon recognizes religious marriages, but not civil marriages. Marriage certificates are generally required to register…
Lebanon
Legal gender discrimination
Multiple treaty bodies have expressed concern that Lebanon’s 1925 Nationality Act does not allow Lebanese…