Iranian Lawmakers Aim To Scrap Discriminatory Citizenship Law
A group of Iranian lawmakers are looking to scrap a longstanding law that denies citizenship and equal rights to Iranian children born to foreign fathers. If approved by parliament, a recently drafted bill would overturn the discriminatory legislation and affect the lives of thousands of children abroad and inside Iran -- especially Iranian children with fathers from the large community of Afghan refugees and migrants living in the Islamic republic. Iranian rights activists have been campaigning for years to abolish the law, under which ...
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