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.

Women had the same rights to legal services as men. Women also had the same rights as men to acquire, keep or change their citizenship, and marriage to a foreign national did not automatically deprive a woman of her Lebanese citizenship.

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

Women are given equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their 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.

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.

In cases of multiple nationality, the State of nationality that was predominant at the time both of the injury and of the official presentation of the claim should be entitled to exercise diplomatic protection against another State of nationality of the person concerned.

This provision, however, does not oblige Estonia to grant citizenship to all its residents without any conditions.

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.

The representative noted that any Kenyan woman who married a foreigner remained a Kenyan citizen until such time as she renounced her 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.

(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

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

(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.

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.

If a Syrian Arab male acquires alien nationality by naturalization, his Syrian Arab wife loses her Arab nationality if the nationality law which applies to her new husband confers that nationality on her.

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.

That policy was in step with contemporary reality many individuals possessed multiple nationalities and their human rights were given legal protection against the State of which they were nationals.

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.

The exception to that general rule was the case where the suspect was present on the territory of the State of his nationality or of the State where the alleged offence had been committed.

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.

Ms. Coker Appiah said that the Code of Algerian Nationality discriminated against women because it did not give them the automatic right to pass on their nationality to their children, whereas it did accord that right to men.

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.

(ii) Given by States Parties to such minerals or commodities produced by their state enterprises or by natural or juridical persons which possess their nationality or are controlled by them or their nationals

We did not accept the theology that multinational corporations would reduce countries to what economists have referred to as dependencia . On the contrary, we assiduously courted foreign investment by multinational corporations irrespective of their 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