Legal > Nationality of women : observations submitted by governments

[Distributed to the Members
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and the Council.]
Official No.: A. 15. 1932. V.
Geneva, July 23rd, 1932.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
NATIONALITY OF WOMEN
Observations submitted by Governments
Note by the Secretary-General.
The question of the nationality of women was brought before the Assembly at its session
of 1931, in virtue of the Council’s resolution of January 24th, 1931, by a report of the Secretary-
General to which were annexed proposals by a committee of representatives of various women’s
international organisations specially interested in the question (document A.19.1931.V.).
A letter on the subject from the International Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations
was also communicated to the Assembly by the Council (document A.41.1931.V.). After
a discussion in the First Committee, the Assembly adjourned consideration of the matter
until its session of the present year, and requested the Council to invite the Governments to
submit to the Assembly their observations on the subject, including their views regarding the
Hague Nationality Convention of April 20th, 1930. On instructions from the Council, the
Secretary-General requested the Governments of the Members of the League, and of the
non-member States which were invited to the Hague Conference, to send him any observations
which they might wish to present before July 1st, 1932.
The Assembly at the same time decided that it would consider any further observations
which the above-mentioned committee of representatives of women’s organisations might
desire to present.
The present document contains the following replies from Governments which had been
received at the date of its publication :
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Australia 2
Belgium 3
Brazil 5
Colombia 5
Czechoslovakia 11
Egypt 5
Germany 2
Great Britain and Northern Ireland . . 6
Hungary 7
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Japan 7
Monaco . 7
Netherlands 8
Norway 8
Roumania 9
Siam 9
South Africa 1
Sweden 10
United States of America 6
If further replies are received from the Governments, they will be communicated to the
Assembly at the opening of its session.
The observations of the committee of representatives of women’s organisations will also
be communicated to the Members of the League and the Assembly as soon as they are received
by the Secretariat.
South Africa.
Letter of June 1st, 1932.
I have the honour to inform you that the Government of the Union of South Africa
consider that generally the question of the equality between men and women in relation to the
laws on nationality is a matter touching municipal law and is not, save in so far as the matter
has already been dealt with in the Hague Nationality Convention, regarded as a matter for
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