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Impact of Existing Discriminatory Citizenship Laws on Women and Children in Nepal

Year of Publication : 2006

The right to citizenship serves as the foundation for several other fundamental
human rights. Right to citizenship is basic human rights of a person, which
can not be denied and deprived to any one in any case. It is a right to identity
and nationality of a person that establish a relationship with his/her nation.
Moreover, it is the right that makes possible to create other rights and thus, it
is the right to have other rights.

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