One in seven countries, many of them in the Middle East and North Africa, have laws or policies limiting the rights of women to pass citizenship to a child or non-citizen spouse, but impose no such restrictions on men, according to a report from the Pew Research Center.
The consequences of such gender inequality in the nationality laws in 27 countries can contribute to the problem of statelessness for children.
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