The case could also arise where a person was born in a State and accordingly acquired its citizenship but due to the citizenship of his or her parents or grandparents was regarded by another State as also holding its citizenship.

In 2008, Spain granted citizenship to 84,170 persons, mostly to people from Ecuador, Colombia and Morocco.

1. The predecessor State shall withdraw its nationality from persons concerned qualified to acquire the nationality of the successor State in accordance with article 24. It shall not, however, withdraw its nationality before such persons acquire the nationality of the successor State.

Ms. Gaspard said she was glad to hear that a foreign woman who married a Lebanese national could retain her own nationality, and, conversely, that a Lebanese woman who married a foreign national could retain her Lebanese nationality.

According to Moroccan officials, Haidar renounced and willingly signed away her Moroccan citizenship.

The law does not require a Pakistani woman to lose her nationality if she marries a non Pakistani.

States parties shall grant women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality.

They shall ensure in particular that neither marriage to an alien nor change of nationality by the husband during marriage shall automatically change the nationality of the wife, render her stateless or force upon her the nationality of the husband.

(a) State Parties shall grant women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality.

States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality.

1. States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality.

2. Each successor State shall grant a right to opt for its nationality to persons concerned who are not covered by the provisions of article 22.

Much criticism and even abuse has been heaped on the Dutch for the way her adopted country has treated her.

A Guinean woman who loses her Guinean nationality through marriage may always regain that nationality if her marriage is dissolved.

A woman with Dutch nationality cannot be forced to relinquish her nationality if her spouse acquires another nationality.

3. Paragraph 2 does not apply in respect of an injury caused by an internationally wrongful act of the State of nationality of the refugee.

f) Article 29 stipulates that an Indonesian woman who marries a foreigner loses her Indonesian citizenship. Otherwise, if she intends to maintain her Indonesian citizenship, within two years after marriage, she may apply by written declaration to the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, or an Official or Representative of the Republic of Indonesia

(b) Where both candidates have been nominated by the State Party of which they are nationals, a separate vote by secret ballot shall be held to determine which national shall become the member

1. A predecessor State may provide that persons concerned who, in relation to the succession of States, voluntarily acquire the nationality of a successor State shall lose its nationality.

(a) Where only one has been nominated by the State Party of which he or she is a national, that national shall serve as the member of the Subcommittee on Prevention

(c) Where neither candidate has been nominated by the State Party of which he or she is a national, a separate vote by secret ballot shall be held to determine which candidate shall be the member.

3. When persons entitled to the right of option have exercised such right, the State whose nationality they have opted for shall attribute its nationality to such persons.

The main innovation was that both men and women could now transfer nationality not only to their children, but also to their spouse. There were, however, problems in practice.

2. A successor State shall not attribute its nationality to persons concerned who have their habitual residence in another State against the will of the persons concerned unless they would otherwise become stateless.

It is a member of the family Lamiaceae and is native to the Mediterranean region, though it has naturalized in many places throughout the world.

g) Article 30, in the case of the husband who loses his Indonesian citizenship as a result of marriage, his wife loses her Indonesian citizenship as well. Unless she has rejected his citizenship, she becomes stateless.

In many cases, such persons had spent a long time in a State other than that of their nationality, or had even become nationals of another State.

2. Unless otherwise indicated by the exercise of a right of option, the predecessor State shall not, however, withdraw its nationality from persons referred to in paragraph 1 who

There would be potential for conflicts to arise as to the handling of a dual national between the State of residence which had granted that person citizenship and the State of prior residence which still regarded the person as holding its citizenship.

1. A successor State does not have the obligation to attribute its nationality to persons concerned who have their habitual residence in another State and also have the nationality of that or any other State.

2. Each State concerned shall grant a right to opt for its nationality to persons concerned who have appropriate connection with that State if those persons would otherwise become stateless as a result of the succession of States.

When the equipment's halogen lamps, worth 12 per unit, had been used up, a professor tried to obtain new lamps from the company in Spain, but this was refused once it was discovered that she was of Cuban nationality.

4. When persons entitled to the right of option have exercised such right, the State whose nationality they have renounced shall withdraw its nationality from such persons, unless they would thereby become stateless.

(a) To communicate without delay with the nearest appropriate representative of the State of which that person is a national or which is otherwise entitled to protect that person's rights or, if that person is a stateless person, the State in the territory of which that person habitually resides

Any person in custody pursuant to paragraph 1 may communicate immediately with the nearest appropriate representative of the State of which he or she is a national, or, if he or she is a stateless person, with the representative of the State where he or she usually resides.

If a woman of the Niger marries an alien and cannot acquire his nationality, she may keep her original nationality.

2. A successor State may provide that persons concerned who, in relation to the succession of States, voluntarily acquire the nationality of another successor State or, as the case may be, retain the nationality of the predecessor State shall lose its nationality acquired in relation to such succession.

3. Any person in custody pursuant to paragraph 1 of this article may communicate immediately with the nearest appropriate representative of the State of which he or she is a national, or, if he or she is a stateless person, with the representative of the State where he or she usually resides.

When a State dissolves and ceases to exist and the various parts of the territory of the predecessor State form two or more successor States, each successor State shall, unless otherwise indicated by the exercise of a right of option, attribute its nationality to

However, if a foreign woman marries to an Indonesian man, she can be naturalized within one year of her marriage, once she renounces her original nationality (Article 7). The aim of this regulation is to avoid bi nationality and to guarantee the unity of law for the family.

For the purposes of the diplomatic protection of a natural person, a State of nationality means a State whose nationality that person has acquired, in accordance with the law of that State, by birth, descent, naturalization, succession of States or in any other manner, not inconsistent with international law.

Moreover, it was stressed that diplomatic protection should not be extended to non governmental organizations, since, in performing their international functions, such organizations did not have sufficient links to their State of nationality and had, therefore, no claim to its protection.

The remaining inhabitants of the Syrian Golan, numbering some 25,000, had been ill treated by Israel which had imposed its citizenship on them, persistently refusing to rescind its decision of 1981 to impose its laws on the Golan, despite the adoption of Security Council resolution 497 (1981) which had declared that decision to be null and void.

2. Nothing in the present articles precludes States from treating persons concerned, who have become stateless as a result of the succession of States, as nationals of the State concerned whose nationality they would be entitled to acquire or retain, if such treatment is beneficial to those persons.

When part or parts of the territory of a State separate from that State and form one or more successor States while the predecessor State continues to exist, a successor State shall, unless otherwise indicated by the exercise of a right of option, attribute its nationality to