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Women’s Status in the Family and Legal Status
auf Deutsch
Laws and practices governing
women’s personal status — their legal capacity and role in the family —
deny women their human rights in many countries. While the type of discrimination
varies from region to region, women throughout the world find that their
relationship to a male relative or husband determines their rights. Personal
status laws in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries curtail women’s rights entering
into, during, and at the dissolution of marriage. Women in Asia, Africa,
Europe, and the Middle East have their citizenship rights curtailed or
denied because of the race or nationality of their husbands. In many countries,
children born in their mother’s country are denied her nationality because
women cannot transmit nationality. These citizens without citizenship are
denied a broad range of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural
rights. For example, Egyptian women who are married to foreign men cannot
pass their nationality to their offspring. Moreover, discriminatory laws
and customary practices in countries like Kenya
and Uganda deprive women of their equal rights to own, inherit, and control property,
including land and housing.
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