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Algerian women are now allowed to transmit their nationality to their children after the government withdrew its reservations to a section of the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, according to a presidential decree. The section obliges signatory States to grant women equal rights to men with respect to the transmission of nationality to their children. The presidential decree published Saturday in the Official Journal lifts Algeria's reservation to this section. “The lifting of this reservation makes us glad. It was frustrating to be Algerian and not have Algerian children. The measure will be of benefit to the children of many Algerian women married to foreigners,” said the president of women’s association Tharwa Fatma N'soumer: Fatma N’soumer, Ourida Chouaki. Algeria had ratified the Convention in 1996. The treaty was adopted on 18 December 1979 by the UN General Assembly. It entered into force on 3 September 1981 after being ratified (what does this mean?) by 20 countries. Further information