23rd MarchMove To Eliminate Gender Bias
By Erica Wells
Gender discrimination should be deleted from the Constitution, the Constitutional Commission said in a preliminary report released yesterday that recommends the removal of any bias against a married Bahamian woman’s ability to transmit citizenship to her child born outside The Bahamas.
The Constitutional provision which automatically grants Bahamian citizenship to children born outside The Bahamas to married Bahamian men, should also apply to children born outside the country to married Bahamian women, regardless of the nationality of their spouse, said the Commission.
In its provisional recommendations on issues of citizenship, the Commission also said that the position of children born outside The Bahamas to unmarried Bahamian parents – male or female – should be the same and should provide for automatic citizenship, subject to proof of paternity in the case of a Bahamian male.
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