Liberia: Mother’s Day Spotlight: Liberia Ends Gender Bias in Citizenship Law

MONROVIA, May 8, 2026 — As Liberians prepare to mark Mother’s Day on May 10, renewed attention is falling on a landmark 2022 reform that wiped out a long-standing gender bias in the country’s nationality law, finally allowing Liberian mothers to pass citizenship to their children at birth just as fathers do.

The Act, signed on July 22, 2022, amended sections of the 1973 Aliens and Nationality Law that, for decades, had given only Liberian fathers the automatic right to confer…