BiH Law on Citizenship of BiH

The Law on citizenship prescribes that the marital partner of a BiH citizen can obtain citizenship under the following conditions

As the provisions of this article imply, the law on citizenship does not establish any impediments to citizenship that are based on sex.

The rules and conditions for the acquisition or loss of citizenship are specified in the constitutional law of 1995 on Republic of Tajikistan citizenship.

The law gives women equal rights with men regarding the citizenship of their children and does not establish any impediments to citizenship based on sex.

One academic study, focusing on Law No. 62 of 1958 on Citizenship, has come up with a recommendation that Indonesian women who marry foreigners should have the right to determine the citizenship of their children. The present Citizenship Law stipulates that children born of a legal marriage between an Indonesian woman and a foreigner should automatically follow the citizenship of the father.

Under the Law on citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the means, conditions and the procedure for the acquiring and terminating of BiH citizenship have been determined.

The new Code on Greek Citizenship (law 3284 2004) abolishes any further discrimination against children of Greek or alien women.

Recent law 3284 2004, regarding the Code on Greek citizenship, abolishes all old provisions, which created issues of discrimination against women.

Law No. 62 of 1958 on Nationality stipulates that Indonesia should apply the principle of ius sanguinis and not recognize dual citizenship.

These were the Citizenship (Nationality) Code, the Law on the Special Provisions for Naturalization, the Law on the Identification of Persons and Regulation of Aliens (Foreigners) in Côte d'Ivoire, the Law on the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), the Law on the Financing of Political Parties, and the Law on the National Human Rights Commission.

Although a revised Law on Citizenship has not been finalized, a breakthrough decision on status of nationality has been made by the South Jakarta District Court, using Law No. 23 of 2002 on human rights (Article 29).

He thanked the UNHCR representative office in his country for assisting his Government in implementing refugee legislation and the recently amended law on citizenship.

He is concerned that the 1982 Citizenship Law, which recognizes the right to nationality for those defined as indigenous, excludes the Rohingya minority from citizenship, leaving them de facto stateless.

Marriage with a foreign citizen does not have an influence on the change of a woman's citizenship except in those cases where she wishes to take on the citizenship of the husband (under the conditions prescribed by the law of the state which the husband comes from).

Because democracy depends on an informed citizenship.

Substantive issues Discrimination on grounds of citizenship

Act 34 1953 of 24 April 1953 Whereby certain persons acquire Czech citizenship rights , paragraph 1 (1) stipulates that Persons of German nationality, who lost Czechoslovak citizenship rights under Decree 33 1945 and have on the day on which this law comes into effect domicile in the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic shall become Czech citizens, unless they have already acquired Czech citizenship rights .

Citizenship by Migration Citizenship by migration is governed under section 6 of the Citizenship Act.

In response to the Committee's questions concerning citizenship, she noted that, under Latvia's Citizenship Law, all those permanently resident in Latvia for at least five years could acquire Latvian citizenship through naturalization, and that neither the marriage of a Latvian citizen to an alien or stateless person, nor the dissolution of such a marriage, affected the citizenship rights of the citizen concerned.

Thus, the draft articles did not allow either the acquisition or the granting of citizenship inconsistent with international law.

There was an appeal to the Working Group to call on the Government of Myanmar to repeal the Citizenship Law and to incorporate minority rights into national legislation.

Republic of Tajikistan law specifies that admission to Republic of Tajikistan citizenship is solely on the basis of petitions submitted by citizens of other States or by stateless persons.

Subject matter Non restitution of confiscated property based on citizenship

Older provisions of the Code of Greek Citizenship, which contained discriminations between the two sexes, were modified by Law 1438 84.

Later on, article 69 of Law 2910 2001 abolished deadlines that applied according to Law 1438 84 in relation to Greek and foreign women obtaining or losing Greek citizenship following their marriage to a foreign or Greek citizen respectively.

The Committee recommends that the State party undertake measures to ensure that all provisions of the Croatian Law on Citizenship are in conformity with article 7 of the Convention and that the law is implemented in a non discriminatory manner.

Based on article 23 of the Constitutional law on Republic of Tajikistan citizenship, a competent person who has reached the age of 18 and is not a citizen of the Republic of Tajikistan may petition for citizenship in the Republic of Tajikistan regardless of origin, social status, race or ethnicity, sex, education, language, religion or political or other beliefs.

The citizenship condition was included in the law to incite owners to take good care of the property after the privatization process.

The issue most often criticized regarding the law on nationality had been Article 9 which stipulated that the Indonesian citizenship of a husband automatically should pass on to his wife, unless she retained another nationality.

Citizenship rights

Either parent's citizenship carries equal weight relating to children's citizenship acquired at birth.

To respond to the need for change, especially to promote equality between men and women, the new Draft Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Indonesia (amending Law No. 62 of 1958) is currently being scrutinized by the relevant institutions and stakeholders.

Citizenship is acquired

Access to citizenship

Under this treaty, the author automatically lost his Czechoslovak citizenship upon acquiring United States citizenship.

The Government also provides education on subjects such as citizenship and human rights.

Any citizen (male or female) who is not a minor and has been assured of citizenship of any other country on renouncing his citizenship of Pakistan can do so.

Is Citizenship a Right?

Earlier the law allowed giving Pakistani nationality to a child only if his or her father was a Pakistani national, based on the principle of right to citizenship by descent only from the father's side.

Training on human rights, citizenship and local democracy in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali

Training on human rights, citizenship, and local democracy in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali.

e) Article 24 stipulates that a woman with foreign citizenship who weds an Indonesian man may acquire Indonesian citizenship by a declaration to this effect before an Indonesian Official or State Representative, except that the acquisition of this citizenship would bestow bi nationality on the individual.

Reduce statelessness, in particular statelessness among children, by, for example, encouraging their parents to apply for citizenship on their behalf and allowing both parents to transmit their citizenship to their children

The Ethics of Citizenship Tests