Citizenship Campaign's regional coordinators plan activities like seminars, workshops, training sessions, etc., in their regions in partnership with other non governmental organizations. These events and activities spread awareness, mobilize diverse groups of people, and advocate for change.
The International Campaign launched on Sep 6, 2006 with a panel discussion on Women as Equal Citizens: Advocating for Change in Muslim-Majority Societies. Launch event materials, including photos, presentations, and audio are available.
The one-hour sit-in organized by the Nationality Campaign coordinators and activists from CRTD-A on Thursday July 24, 2008 was remarkably successful. Sixty participants gathered outside the Lebanese Cabinet offices to call on the new government to reform the nationality code so women can confer their nationality to their foreign husbands and children.
Continue Reading | Posted by layali on August 4th, 2008
Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A) is organizing a sit-in in front of the Cabinet on July 24th from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. to call on the new government to amend the nationality code.
Continue Reading | Posted by WLP on July 23rd, 2008
Dear “Claiming Equal Citizenship” Campaigners,
The Nationality Campaign press conference held on Arab Women’s Day went really well. The conference in Lebanon was covered by four daily newspapers, 2 electronic forums, and 3 TV stations (Tele Liban, Orange TV, and Arab Women TV).
Continue Reading | Posted by roula on February 4th, 2008
The Nationality Campaign is pleased to inform you of a press conference! On the occasion of Arab Women’s Day, several regional events will be taking place simultaneously under one slogan: “My Nationality is a Right for me and My Family”. These activities will be taking place in Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and the Gulf region.
Continue Reading | Posted by roula on January 28th, 2008
On October 9th and 10th, Lebanon campaign partner, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A), conducted a workshop for a small group of women and children who are adversely affected by the current nationality laws in Lebanon.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on October 27th, 2007
This is a time of year when many children are going back to school, flooding school hallways and classrooms. Education is an invaluable social service provided by the state. However, there are many children who are denied access to education based on whom their mothers choose to marry.
Continue Reading | Posted by WLP on October 9th, 2007
Organizing members of the Nationality campaign in Lebanon have been very busy over the last month advancing the campaign efforts through various media outlets, including an interview on Al Jazeera English and a new group started on Facebook, a fast-growing social networking site.
Continue Reading | Posted by christina on September 24th, 2007
While Iranian men can transmit their nationality to their spouses and children, Iranian women do not have the same right.
After years of attempts by human rights activists, the nationality law was finally amended in September 2006 by the Iranian Parliament. But as Golbarg Bashi mentions in her article “Citizenship Rights in Iran: One Step Forward, Many More to Take,” the unprecedented amendment is just a cosmetic change.
Continue Reading | Posted by WLP on June 29th, 2007
Nearly three dozen women representing 15 NGOs and six countries in the Middle East — Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, and Syria — gathered over four days from April 9-12 to discuss strategies for the Nationality Campaign. In Egypt, where the law was amended a few years ago, President of Forum for Women in Development, Mirvat Abu Tiej, explained “We are continually checking to make sure the law is being applied, and we have succeeded in taking to court and winning the right for women to give their nationality to their children if married to a Palestinian man.”
Continue Reading | Posted by WLP on April 13th, 2007
Press Release by Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc
On Friday March 2, 2007, Moroccan women’s and human rights organizations organized a meeting at the invitation of l’Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc on the Nationality Code which was ratified by the Parliament recently. After discussion on the latest developments of this law, their demands are the following.
Continue Reading | Posted by rabea lemrini on March 6th, 2007