Statement by Madagascar

Extract:

One of the important realisations of the rights of women in Madagascar has been the reform of the Code of Nationality to allow children born of a Malagasy mother and a foreign father to acquire Malagasy nationality by the maternal line, independent of the nationality of the father.

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