Cairo - Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed on Friday Qatar's new residency law as gender discrimination and inequality against women. The Qatari cabinet had approved a draft law that will allow permanent residence for children of Qatari women married to non-Qataris, but not full nationality. "Qatar needs to end discrimination against women and their children, but the proposal to grant the children residency and not nationality merely assigns them a second-class status", Rothna Begum, a researcher at Human Rights Watch said. She stated that Qatar's residency law draft will create another generation of children with Qatari mothers who will suffer from inequality and discrimination. HRW earlier met with ministers in Doha, urging them to amend its international law and grant full nationality to children of Qatari women, but the draft law came to disappoint all their expectations. The draft law also stated that permanent residence will be given to expatriates who "provide outstanding services to Qatar." The law doesn't specify the type of services that could be presented to be qualified to acquire a permanent residence in Qatar. This law also raised some fears that the gas-rich country may use the new law to grant permanent residency for some wanted people, labeled as terrorists by other governments.