Tunis — The chamber of Deputies met here on Thursday under chairmanship of Speaker Foued Mebazaa and passed a bill providing for the amendment to some provisions of the nationality law, in materialization of the president's instructions to cancel all forms of legal discrimination against women so as to bring national laws into line with international conventions in this field and especially with UN conventions.
The aim of this bill is to achieve total equality between men and women as regards granting nationality to children regardless of the place of birth and the nationality of the husband and wife. The bill also thought of transitional provisions for the settlement of unresolved situations to enable people concerned to get Tunisian nationality in accordance with the law.
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