Promoting law reform through the media and awareness-raising efforts – such as rallies – is a hallmark of the
Campaign’s strategy. The campaigners have also embraced social media to raise awareness of their objectives
and improve coordination.
These efforts contributed to bringing about reforms that have introduced gender equality with respect to the
right to confer nationality in Egypt (2004), Algeria (2005), Morocco (2007) and Tunisia (2010). All the Campaign
partners acknowledge that Egypt’s pioneering reform helped pave the way for additional countries to follow
suit in the region and that each success has had a knock-on effect, but note that reform has yet to be achieved
in 12 countries in the MENA region. To change that, the Arab Women’s Right to Nationality Campaign continues
to network, share information and strategize at the regional level, with support from the Women Learning
Partnership’s “Claiming Equal Citizenship Campaign”14 and the Arab regional Equality without Reservation
Coalition.15
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Information on this Campaign is available at: http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship Further information about ongoing
national campaigns, such as the one in Lebanon led by CRTD.A entitled “My Nationality is a Right for Me and My Family” is available at:
http://nationalitycampaign.wordpress.com
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Further information on this coalition, which calls for lifting CEDAW reservations, full implementation of CEDAW and ratification of the CEDAWOptional Protocol is available at: http://cedaw.wordpress.com
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CAMPAIGN TO END STATELESSNESS WITHIN 10 YE ARS