Advancing Gender Equality and the Right to Nationality
Date: 16–21 November 2024
Venue: Bangkok, Thailand
Events Attended:
- Young Feminist Forum (16 November 2024)
- Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Forum on Beijing+30 Asia-Pacific (17–18 November 2024)
- Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Beijing+30 (19–21 November 2024)
Nationality for All’s Executive Director, Subin Mulmi, participated in a series of significant regional events marking the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, one of the world’s most important frameworks for advancing gender equality and women’s rights.
Held in Bangkok, Thailand from 16–21 November 2024, these forums brought together civil society organisations, feminist leaders, and government representatives from across the Asia-Pacific to reflect on progress, identify challenges, and reimagine strategies for achieving gender justice.
Bringing Statelessness into the Gender Equality Conversation
Throughout the Young Feminist Forum, the CSO Forum on Beijing+30, and the Ministerial Conference, Subin shared NFA’s insights on the intersection of gender, statelessness, and nationality rights. His contributions highlighted how gender-discriminatory nationality laws continue to deny women equal rights to confer citizenship, perpetuating cycles of exclusion and inequality.
On 17 November 2024, during the CSO Forum, NFA co-facilitated a workshop with Family Frontiers titled “Gender and Statelessness.” The session explored the gendered dimensions of statelessness, including the ways in which gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender-based violence intersect with unequal nationality laws, and called for stronger, feminist approaches to advocacy and reform.
A Platform for Feminist Solidarity and Regional Action
Across these spaces, NFA emphasised the importance of centering impacted persons, strengthening solidarity among women’s and statelessness movements, and ensuring that statelessness is recognised as a core gender equality issue.
The Beijing+30 process reaffirmed that achieving true gender equality requires addressing systemic barriers to citizenship, identity, and belonging. NFA’s participation in these events underscores its ongoing commitment to ensuring that the right to nationality is fully integrated into regional and global gender justice agendas.
