unemployment; social alienation and psychological damage.7 This alienation can result in future security
threats for a State where a proportion of their population feels indefinitely marginalized. We therefore
respectfully request the Committee explore further with the State Party any harmful impacts of its sex
discriminatory nationality law, such as on children’s right to healthcare and to education under Articles
24 and 28 respectively, and recommend swift and comprehensive changes to remedy all breaches of the
CRC.
Finally we urge the Committee to raise with the government of Qatar in its List of Issues the following
questions with regard to violations of children’s rights resulting from sex discrimination in the country’s
nationality law.
Given the violations of children’s rights resulting from sex discrimination in the Qatar’s
Nationality Act No. 38 of 2005, what steps is the government taking and within what timeframe
to amend the nationality law to ensure that women citizens have the same rights as men to
confer nationality on their children and their foreign spouses?
What support might be needed, if any, to further this process?
Thank you very much for your kind attention, and please do not hesitate to contact us if we can provide
further information.
Catherine Harrington
Campaign Manager
Amal De Chickera
Co-Director
Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
c/o Women’s Refugee Commission
122 East 42nd St., 11th Floor
New York, NY 10168
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
Gestelsestraat 134
5615 LJ Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Email: CatherineH@wrcommission.org
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Email: amal.dechickera@institutesi.org
Equality Now, Campaign to End Sex Discrimination in Nationality and Citizenship Laws, 2013 (updated May 2014, Feb. 2015), available at
http://www.equalitynow.org/sites/default/files/NationalityReport_EN.pdf
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