A/HRC/36/30
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 July 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-sixth session
11-29 September 2017
Agenda items 2 and 3
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of
the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Expert workshop on best practices to promote women’s
equal nationality rights in law and in practice
Summary report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 32/7
on the right to a nationality: women’s equal nationality rights in law and in practice. In that
resolution, the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, in coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to
organize a half-day expert workshop to showcase best practices to promote women’s equal
nationality rights in law and in practice and to submit to it at its thirty-sixth session a
summary report on that workshop, including any recommendations stemming therefrom.
The workshop took place in Geneva on 16 May 2017.
GE.17-12619(E)