Date Type Case No Country Mandate(s) Summary of the allegation transmitted Reply IRQ 6/2014 14/11/2014 Iraq AL Discrimination against women ; Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation. According to the information received, Iraq’s 2006 nationality law limits the ability of Iraqi women to confer their nationality to children born outside the country. In such cases, the child of an Iraqi mother may apply for Iraqi nationality within one year of reaching maturity, provided that the child’s father is unknown or stateless, and that the child resides in Iraq at the time of the application. JOR 2/2014 14/11/2014 Jordan AL Discrimination against women ; Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation. 20/01/2015 According to the information received, current nationality law in Jordan discriminates against women in that it only allows women nationals married to foreign nationals to pass their nationality to their children in certain circumstances, such as where fathers are unknown, stateless, of unknown nationality or do not establish filiation. KWT 3/2014 14/11/2014 Kuwait AL Discrimination against women ; Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation. 20/11/2014 According to the information received, current nationality law in Kuwait discriminates 20/11/2014 against women in that fathers can confer their nationality to their children in all circumstances while mothers cannot. LBR 1/2014 14/11/2014 Liberia AL Discrimination against women ; Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation. According to the information received, current nationality law in Liberia, specifically the Aliens and Nationality Law (1973), discriminates against women in that children born abroad to Liberian mothers are excluded from acquiring Liberian citizenship. LBY 4/2014 14/11/2014 Libya AL Discrimination against women ; Letter concerning discriminatory provisions against women in nationality legislation. According to the information received, current nationality law in Libya discriminates against women in that Libyan women married to foreign nationals are not allowed to automatically pass their nationality to their children except in cases where the father is unknown, stateless, of unknown nationality or does not establish filiation. A/HRC/28/85 121