In Malaysia, children born in the country to either Malaysian mothers or Malaysian fathers automatically acquire Malaysian nationality. However, children born to Malaysian mothers abroad may only acquire Malaysian citizenship at the discretion of the Federal Government through registration at an overseas Malaysian consulate or at the National Registration Department in Malaysia. In Nepal, the Nepalese nationality law provides for a Nepalese woman to confer her nationality to her child only where the father is unknown, and the child was born in and has resided in Nepal. Children born to Nepalese mothers and foreign fathers can apply to acquire citizenship through naturalization, provided they have permanent domicile in Nepal and have not acquired the foreign citizenship of their fathers. Americas The nationality laws of two States in the Caribbean do not allow women to confer nationality on their children on the same terms as fathers. In The Bahamas, the nationality law provides that children born in the country to either a Bahamian father or mother acquire Bahamian nationality. However, only children born abroad to Bahamian fathers can acquire Bahamian nationality. The only exception to this relates to unmarried mothers, who can confer their Bahamian nationality to their children born in or outside of the Bahamas. Under the nationality law of Barbados, all children born in the country acquire Barbadian nationality at birth, but Barbadian mothers cannot confer nationality on their children born abroad, whereas Barbadian fathers can. U N H C R > B A C K G R O U N D N O T E O N G E N D E R E Q U A L I T Y, N AT I O N A L I T Y L A W S A N D S TAT E L E S S N E S S 2 0 2 4 13