{"id":38303,"date":"2023-04-12T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38303"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T08:18:27","slug":"house-of-representatives-approves-amendments-to-egyptian-citizenship-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/house-of-representatives-approves-amendments-to-egyptian-citizenship-law\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Representatives approves amendments to Egyptian Citizenship Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAIRO \u2013 12 April 2023: The House of Representatives approved Wednesday the amendment of Article 6 of law no. 26\/1975 on the Egyptian citizenship, granting women of foreign origin the right to pass the nationality to their minor children whose fathers are not Egyptians.<\/p>\n

Speaker Hanafi al-Gebaly noted that the article before the amendment \u2013 drafted by the government – had been unconstitutional as it violated the principle of gender equality. Nevertheless, he stipulated that the citizenship is a form of the state sovereignty, so it is granted not only by meeting requirements, but also based on the approval of concerned agencies.<\/p>\n

Read further: https:\/\/perma.cc\/2JRD-3N3Y<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAIRO \u2013 12 April 2023: The House of Representatives approved Wednesday the amendment of Article 6 of law no. 26\/1975 on the Egyptian citizenship, granting women of foreign origin the right to pass the nationality to their minor children whose fathers are not Egyptians. Speaker Hanafi al-Gebaly noted that the article before the amendment \u2013 […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=38303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38304,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38303\/revisions\/38304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}