Kathmandu, July 9 -- After the House of Representatives last month passed the citizenship bill (second amendment to the Nepal Citizenship Act, 2006), it was hailed on social media as a big victory for gender equality.
While discussions and forums celebrated the bill as making citizenship through mothers as being "equal to citizenship through fathers," experts say this narrative is misleading.
Though the amendment eases some administrative hurdles, it still falls short of granting parents equal legal standing in conferring citizenship.
Experts say that while the bill resolves some procedural issues, it fails to give mothers the same legal authority as fathers in passing on citizenship. They warn that the law retains discriminatory provi...
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