Knowledge Webinar 4: Addressing Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws and Policies

The Global Alliance to End Statelessness launched a Knowledge Webinar Series, designed to spotlight concrete actions, lessons learned, and collaborative solutions to end statelessness worldwide.

The fourth session, Addressing Discriminatory Nationality Laws and Policies, is organized by the respective Global Alliance Thematic Working Group and will take place on 2 December 2025, 14h00 – 15h30 CET. It will explore how gender-discriminatory nationality laws, policies or practices cause and perpetuate statelessness, and what can be done to combat them.

Despite government commitments on gender equality, over forty-five countries have gender-discriminatory nationality laws. Twenty-four countries do not permit women to confer nationality on their children on an equal basis with men. This webinar will provide information on the importance of gender-equal nationality rights and lessons learned from successful and ongoing efforts to achieve them.  

Speaker List:

Moderator: Ms. Catherine Harrington, Manager, Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights

Keynote Speaker: Ms. Hon. Minister Isata Mahoi, Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs, Sierra Leone

Panel discussion:

• Ms. Adriana Quinones, Chief, Human Rights and Nondiscrimination, UN Women 

• Ms. Adlyn Teoh, President, Family Frontiers, Malaysia 

• Ms. Nokuthula Mamba, Executive Director, Youth Sustainable Development Centre, Eswatini 

• Ms. Rasha Altabshi, Team Director, Warsheh Team, Syria

Interpretation

The event will take place in English with simultaneous interpretation into Arabic and French.

Registration & Meeting link

Please use the link below to register and receive the webinar link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/466838bf-9b3c-4f65-8016-4c4021ca8b16@e5c37981-6664-4134-8a0c-6543d2af80be