Convention on the Nationality of Married Women - Naciones Unidas

DOCUMENT INFORMATION
FILE NAME Ch XVI 2
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VOLUME VOL-2
CHAPTER Chapter XVI. Status of Women
TITLE 2. <strong>Convention</strong> on the Nationality of Married Women.
New York, 20 February 1957

CONVENTION
ON THE NATIONALITY OF MARRIED WOMEN
UNITED NATIONS
1957

2. Acce88ion shall be effected by the deposit
of an instrument of accewon with the Secretary.General
of the United Nations.
ARTICLE 6
1. The present <strong>Convention</strong> shall come into
for« on the ninetieth day following the date
of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification
or aeceuion.
2. For each State ratifying or acceding to
the <strong>Convention</strong> after the deposit of the sixth
instrument of ratification or accession, the
<strong>Convention</strong> shall enter into force on the ninetieth
day after deposit by such State of its instrument
of ratification or aceeasion.
ARTICLE 7
1. The present <strong>Convention</strong> shall apply to all
non-self-governing, trust. colonial and other
non-metropolitan territories for the interna·
tional relations of which any Contr:acting State
is respomible; the Contracting State concerned
shall, subject to the provilioDll of paragraph
2 of the present article. at the time of 8igna·
lUre, ratification or accession, declare the non·
metropolitan territory or territories to which
the Com-enlion shall apply ipso facto u a result
of such signature, ratification or acceWon.
2. In any case in which, for the purpose of
nationality, a non.metropolitan territory is not
treated as one with the metropolitan territory,
or in any eaee in which the previous consent
of a non.metropolitan territory ia required by
the eoostitutionallaws or practices of the Contracting
Slate or of the non.metropolitan terri·
tory for the application of the <strong>Convention</strong> to
that territory, that Contracting State shall endeavour
to secure the needed consent of the
non.metropolitan territory within the period of
twelve months from the date of signature of
the <strong>Convention</strong> hy that Contracting State. and
when mch consent has been obtained the Con·
tracting State shall notify the Secretary·General
of the United Nations. The preaent Con .
•
vention ahan apply to the territory or territories
named in such notification from the date
of ita receipt by the Secretary-General.
3. After the expiry of the twelve.month
period mentioned in paragraph 2 of the present
article, the Contracting States concerned ahall
inform the Secretary-General of the results of
the consultations with those non.metropolitan
territories for whose international relations
they are responsible and whose consent to the
application of the present <strong>Convention</strong> may
have been withheld.
ARTlCLE 8
1. At the time of signature, ratification or
acceuion. any State may make reservations to
any article of the present <strong>Convention</strong> other
than articles 1 and 2.
2. If any State makea a reaervation in accordance
with paragraph 1 of the present arti·
cle, the <strong>Convention</strong>. with the exception of those
provisions to which the reservation relate.,
shall have effect as between the reserving State
and the other Parties. The Secretary-General
of the United Nations shall communicate the
text of the reservation to all States which are or
may become Parties to the <strong>Convention</strong>. Any
State Party to the <strong>Convention</strong> or which thereafter
becomes a Party may notify the Secre.
tary.General that it does not agree to consider
itself bound by the <strong>Convention</strong> with reo
spect to the State making the reservation. This
notitication must be made. in the case of a
State already a Party, within ninety days from
the date of the communication by the Seerf"
tary-General; and, in the case of a State mho
sequently becoming a Party, within ninety
days from the date when the instrument of ratification
or accession is deposited. In the event
that lIuch a notification is made, the Conven.
tion shall not be deemed to be in effect all be.
tween the State making the notification and
the State making the reservation.
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CONVENTION
SUR LA NATIONAUTE DE LA FEMME MARIEE
NATIONS UNIBS
19$1

CONVENCION
SOBRE LA NAClONALIDAD DE LA MUJER CASADA
NACIONES UNIDAS
1951

CONVENCION SOBRE LA NACIONALIDAD DE LA MUJER CASADA
Lo. E.wdos contr_
Recon.ociendo que surgen conftietos de ley
Y de pri.ctica en materia de nacionalidad a
causa de lae disposiciones eobre la perdida y
adquisicion de la nacionalidad de 1. mujer
como resultado del matrimonio. de au disolucion,
0 del cambio de nacionalidad del marido
durante e1 matrimonio,
Reconociendo que. en .1 articulo 15 de I.
DecIaracion Univenal de Dereeh08 HumanOl,
1. Aaambles General de las Nacionee Unidas
proclam6 que "Ioda pel'8Ona tiene derecho
a una nacionalidad" y que "s nadie 8e privar'
arbitrariamente de 8U nacionalidad oi del derecho
• cambiar de nacionalidad",
DaeOl(lS de cooperar con la.e: Nacion.,.
Unida para extender el reepeto y la ob&er.
vancia univenalee de loe derechos human08 y
de 1&8 lihertades fundamentales para todos, sin
diatincion de BeXo,
Han convenido en lu diaposicioDes eiguientea:
AlrriCCLO 1
Loa Eatad08 oontratantee convienen en que
ni la celebraci6n ni la diaoluci6n del matrimonio
entre nacionalee y e%tranjeroe, ni el cam·
hio de naclonalidad de1 marido durante el mao
trimonio, poddn alectar automaticamente a I.
nacionalidad de la mujer.
AlrriCULO 2
Loa Eatad08 oontratante8 coDvienen en que
e1 heeho de qo.e uno de sus naclonales adquiera
voluntariam.ente la nacionalidad de olro Estado
0 el de que renuncle a IU nacionalidad,
no impediri que la c6nyuge con.eerve la naoonalid.d
que pooee.
AarlCULO 3
1. Los Estados contrataDtes convienen en
que una mujer extranjera casada con uno de
sua nacionales podra adquirir. ai 10 solicita,la
nacionalidad del mando, mediante un procc·
dimiento especial de naturalizaci6n privilegiada,
con 8lljeci6n a laa limitacionea que puedan
imponene por razones de aeguridad y de
mteres pUblico.
2. Loe Eetados contrataDtee convienen en
que la preaente Convenci6n no podr' interprelane
en el aentido de que afecte a la legia1aci6n
o la prlictica judicial que permitan a la mujer
extran jera de uno de aDS nacionalea adquirir de
pleno derecho, ai 10 aolicita, la nacionalidad
del marido.
AlrrictlLO 4
1. La preaente Convencl6n queda abierta a
la firma y a 1a ratiGcaci6n de cualquier Eatado
Miembro de las Nacionea Unidaa y de cualquier
olro E.tado que tea 0 Degue a eer miembro de
algnn OI'ganismo eapecializado de Ia8 Nacioll88
Unidas, 0 que aea 0 llegue. ler parte euel Eeta·
toto de la Corte Internacional de Jueticia, 0 de
eualqnier olro Eatado al que la Aaamhlea General
de laa Nacionea Unidaa hay. dirigido una
invitaci6n al electo.
2. La preeente Convenci6n deberli aer rati.
fieada y lOB instrumentoa de ratiGcaci6n deberlin
aer depoaitadO& en poder del Secretario
General de Ia8 Nacionea Uaida.
AlrriCCLO 5
1. Tod08 108 Eetad08 a que ae reliere e1
p6rrafo 1 del articulo 4 podrin .dherirae • Ia
preaente Convenci6n.
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-TrfIMllllwn by the SecretBl'is,;
On behalf of Uruguay we hereby make a reaervation
to the provilion! of article 3 which haa s bearing on the
application 01 the <strong>Convention</strong>. The Constitution 01 Uruguay
doel not authorize the granting of nationality to an
alien WIleN he i8 the child of a Uruguayan father or
mother, in which ease he may beC

1 hereby certify that the foregom, teat is a true
eopy of ahe text of the Conveation on the Nationality
or Married Womea, opened ror .ipature at the
Headquarten of the United Nations. New York, on
20 February 1957. the or1Pnaltext of whleh is depotiled
with the Secretary-General of the United
N.dOlll.
For ,he SecrfflGry-Gen.end:
Tioe L.,aIlAnuuel
United Natiou. New York
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