In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, explores the nexus between violence against women and girls, nationality laws and statelessness, with a view to assessing the way in which statelessness and gender-discriminatory nationality laws and practices function as a form of violence against women and girls.

GENEVA (29 December 2020) – In a ground-breaking decision, the Human Rights Committee has found that the Netherlands violated a child's rights by registering "nationality unknown" in his civil records...

GENEVA (21 December 2020) – The UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, today welcomed the adoption of a resolution by the European Parliament to protect national and linguistic...

GENEVA (25 June 2020) – UN human rights experts* today urged the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to repatriate hundreds of people abducted during and after the Korean War and end decades...

Español Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 12 June 2020 Subject: Bahamas We welcome the recent court ruling in The Bahamas regarding the...

GENEVA (20 May 2020) – UN experts today called on Canada to secure the urgent release and repatriation of a five-year-old orphaned girl being held in inhuman conditions in north-eastern Syria’s...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Jeremy Laurence Location: Geneva Date: 13 December 2019 Subject: India We are concerned that India's new Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 is...

GENEVA (18 April 2019) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday expressed alarm at a court decision in Bahrain that revoked the nationalities of 138 people after a mass...