{"id":1758,"date":"2021-11-03T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/equalitynow.org\/resource\/bahrain_decree_law_no_12_amending_bahraini_citizenship_act_of_1963\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:17:08","slug":"bahrain_decree_law_no_12_amending_bahraini_citizenship_act_of_1963","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/ru\/resource\/uncategorised\/bahrain_decree_law_no_12_amending_bahraini_citizenship_act_of_1963\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain &#8212; Decree Law No. 12 Amending Bahraini Citizenship Act of 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"meta-split-banner-block\" style=\"background-color:#00754C\">\n\n    \n        <div class=\"columns is-gapless is-multiline is-mobile\">\n            <div class=\"column is-12-mobile is-8-tablet is-6-desktop\">\n                <div class=\"image-container-overlay is-hidden-desktop\">\n\n                    \n                        <div class=\"image-overlay\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/placeholder.jpg');\"><\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n                <div class=\"outer\">\n                    <div class=\"inner left\">\n                        <div class=\"split-post-content\">\n\n                            <div class=\"columns is-multiline is-mobile\">\n                                <div class=\"column is-12\">\n                                    <p class=\"date\">3rd \u041d\u043e\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044c 2021<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"column is-12\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"title\">Bahrain &#8212; Decree Law No. 12 Amending Bahraini Citizenship Act of 1963<\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                            \n                            \n                                <div class=\"columns\">\n                                    <div class=\"column is-9\">\n                                        <p class=\"time-to-read\">3 min read<\/p>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n\n                            \n                            \n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n            <div class=\"column is-6-desktop is-hidden-touch\">\n                <div class=\"image-container\">\n\n                    \n                        <div class=\"image-overlay\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/placeholder.jpg');\"><\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"full-width-content-block\">\n\n    \n        <div class=\"container\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n            <div class=\"columns\">\n                <div class=\"column\">\n\n                    <p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Article 4 of Bahrain\u2019s Decree Law No. 12 amending the Bahraini Citizenship Act of 1963 allows Bahraini mothers to only pass on their citizenship to their children under certain conditions not applicable to Bahraini fathers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Country:<\/strong>\u00a0Bahrain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Law status:\u00a0<\/strong>Discriminatory law in force<\/li>\n<li><strong>Law Type:\u00a0<\/strong>Citizenship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article 4 of Bahrain\u2019s Decree Law No. 12 amending the Bahraini Citizenship Act of 1963 allows Bahraini mothers to only pass on their citizenship to their children under certain conditions not applicable to Bahraini fathers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Article 4.\u00a0<em>A person shall be deemed a Bahraini national in the following cases:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>A. If he\/she was born in Bahrain or abroad and the\u00a0<strong>father<\/strong>, at the time of the birth, was a\u00a0<strong>Bahraini national<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><em>B. If he\/she was born in Bahrain or abroad and the\u00a0<strong>mother<\/strong>, at the time of birth, was a\u00a0<strong>Bahraini national, providing that the father was either unknown or paternity was not legally proven<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.refworld.org\/docid\/3fb9f34f4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Explore Bahrain&#8217;s full law<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-signpost-block\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"columns\">\n            <div class=\"column is-2\"><\/div>\n            <div class=\"column is-8\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n\n                \n                                                <div class=\"button\">\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/what-we-do\/achieve_legal_equality\/words-and-deeds-the-beijing-platform-for-action\/discriminatory-laws-from-the-beijing-report\/\" target=\"\">\n                                        Explore the Beijing Report +                                    <\/a>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <div class=\"button\">\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/what-we-do\/achieve_legal_equality\/\" target=\"\">\n                                        Back to achieving legal equality +                                    <\/a>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <div class=\"button\">\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/what-we-do\/\" target=\"\">\n                                        What we do +                                    <\/a>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","post_tag":[],"resource_type":[],"law_status":[216],"law_type":[225],"issue":[49],"region":[],"class_list":["post-1758","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry","issue-achieve-legal-equality"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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