Iraq
Gender inequality in women’s independent access to their own ID
In Iraq, ID is needed to cross security checkpoints and access basic services and rights,…
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Iraq
Harmful social stigma through bureaucratic practice
In Iraq, institutionalized rape and forced marriage were part of ISIS’s pre-meditated genocidal campaign against…
Iraq
Marital status discrimination
In 2019, CEDAW noted that mothers in Iraq can only confer nationality on children if…
Iraq
Administrative procedures for conferring citizenship on children born to citizen mothers and foreign fathers
Iraq reformed its Constitution in 2005 and nationality law in 2006 to allow Iraqi women…
Iraq
Politicized birth registration practices as part of conflict / contests over territory
In eastern Iraq, ISIS systematically confiscated state-issued identity documents in areas under its control. ISIS…
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…