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Achieving Universal Access to ID: Gender-based Legal Barriers Against Women and Good Practice Reforms

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dc.contributor.authorElefante, Marina
dc.contributor.authorHanmer, Lucia
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-30T19:22:32Z
dc.date.available2019-09-30T19:22:32Z
dc.date.issued2019-01
dc.description.abstractProof of identity is vital in modern society. Individuals need identity documents to participate in many aspects of civil, political, and economic life. These include obtaining a job in the formal sector, opening a bank account, borrowing from a financial institution, and owning a property or a business in addition to traveling, voting, and gaining access to health and social welfare services. For women and girls, legal identity is a stepping stone to empowerment, agency, and freedom of movement. Hence, it is a vital enabler of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. However, many women and girls do not have access to legal identity. Globally, it is estimated that 1 billion people are unable to prove their identity, and millions more have forms of identification that cannot be reliably verified or authenticated (World Bank 2015). This paper explores how gender-based legal differences and nationality laws limit women’s ability to obtain identification for themselves, their children, and, in the case of nationality laws, their spouses too. It brings together data and analysis produced by agencies working on legal barriers that pertain to their mandates, for example, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on birth registration, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on statelessness, and the evidence produced by the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law and other legal sources. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the extent of gender-based legal barriers against women to ID and what is known about their impact on women, children, and excluded groups.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606011569301719515/Achieving-Universal-Access-to-ID-Gender-based-Legal-Barriers-Against-Women-and-Good-Practice-Reforms
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/32474
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/32474
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS
dc.subjectIDENTIFICATION
dc.subjectIDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectGENDER EQUALITY
dc.subjectLEGAL BARRIER
dc.subjectDISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMAN
dc.subjectNATIONAL ID
dc.subjectBIRTH REGISTRATION
dc.subjectNATIONALITY LAW
dc.subjectID4D
dc.titleAchieving Universal Access to IDen
dc.title.subtitleGender-based Legal Barriers Against Women and Good Practice Reformsen
dc.typeReporten
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okr.crossref.titleAchieving Universal Access to ID
okr.date.disclosure2019-09-24
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work::Other Public Sector Study
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606011569301719515/Achieving-Universal-Access-to-ID-Gender-based-Legal-Barriers-Against-Women-and-Good-Practice-Reforms
okr.guid606011569301719515
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/32474
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b08734311d_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31427379
okr.identifier.report142023
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/606011569301719515/pdf/Achieving-Universal-Access-to-ID-Gender-based-Legal-Barriers-Against-Women-and-Good-Practice-Reforms.pdfen
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Law
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::Information and Records Management
okr.topicLaw and Development::Human Rights
okr.topicLaw and Development::Law and Gender
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.unitGender Director (HGNDR)
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