{"id":1574,"date":"2016-06-20T12:27:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/mali\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:57:07","slug":"mali","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/west-africa\/mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizenship in Mali is governed by <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/mali-loi-n-2011-087-du-30-decembre-2011-portant-code-des-personnes-et-de-la-famille-30-dec-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loi No.2011-087 portant Code des personnes et de la famille.<\/a> The new code repealed and replaced the <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/loi-no-95-70-portant-modification-code-de-la-nationalite-malienne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1962 Code de la nationalit\u00e9 as modified in 1995<\/a>, removing remaining gender discrimination in the letter of the law.\u00a0 The 1995 amendments had already increased rights for women and permitted dual nationality. The rules on attribution of nationality based on descent, however, depend on establishing descent through the procedures established by the family code, which &#8212; despite a <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/le-nouveau-code-de-la-famille-au-mali-une-veritable-regression-pour-les-droits-des-femmes\/\">long struggle by women&#8217;s rights activists<\/a> &#8212; still privilege the rights of men.<\/p>\n<p>The new family code retained the existing automatic attribution of nationality to a child born in Mali of one parent also born there; but amended the requirement that the parent be \u201cof African origin\u201d to require rather that the parent be a national of another African country.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, before the new family code was enacted, the <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/crc-concluding-observations-mali-2007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN Committee on the Rights of the Child<\/a> expressed concern about gender discrimination in the nationality law.\u00a0 The Committee welcomed the adoption of <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/mali-loi-no-06-024-du-28-juin-2006-regissant-letat-civil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Law No. 06-024 of 2006<\/a> on civil registration, making birth registration cost free, but regretted that birth registration was still not complete and urged simplification of the process and the creation of mobile registration units to serve rural populations. In 2016, the <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/cedaw-concluding-observations-mali-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women <\/a>recommended that Mali remove remaining discriminatory provisions in its laws, including in the family code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citizenship in Mali is governed by Loi No.2011-087 portant Code des personnes et de la famille. The new code repealed and replaced the 1962 Code de la nationalit\u00e9 as modified in 1995, removing remaining gender discrimination in the letter of the law.\u00a0 The 1995 amendments had already increased rights for women and permitted dual nationality. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3785,"parent":1487,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1574","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37653,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1574\/revisions\/37653"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}