A/HRC/36/30 provided opportunities for dialogue and advocacy for women’s equal nationality rights, and for monitoring progress in the reform processes. 36 28. With regard to civil society organizations, the experts and participants at the workshop encouraged collaboration between those working to end statelessness and women’s rights organizations to mobilize greater support for the reform. Furthermore, it was pointed out that civil society and the media can play a role by holding the Government accountable for the implementation of regional and international commitments, including through monitoring of international human rights bodies and strategic litigation 37 at the national level. Some pointed out that regional collaboration among civil society organizations and movements is useful.38 29. International actors, such as other States, development partners, international organizations and the United Nations human rights mechanisms could also support the law reform and the implementation of reformed laws. States could play a role in advocating for women’s equal nationality rights through bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. Some participants stressed the importance of regional cooperation among States, referring to ongoing efforts made in regional intergovernmental forums. 39 States could also encourage and support their peers in eliminating discrimination against women in nationality rights through the universal periodic review process 40 and through development cooperation in the context of realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular goal 5. 41 30. Development partners, United Nations entities, agencies, funds and programmes, including OHCHR, UNHCR, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWomen), and other international organizations could advocate for the elimination of discrimination against women and realization of gender equality, including in nationality rights, and provided technical support to States for the development, adoption and implementation of the necessary law reforms. Such efforts may be undertaken under and contribute to global campaigns, such as the “I Belong” 10-year campaign to end statelessness, the global campaign for equal nationality rights by an international coalition of organizations and the UNHCR- and UNICEF-led Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality. 31. United Nations human rights mechanisms, such as special procedures of the Human Rights Council and the human rights treaty bodies, could address and highlight issues relating to the right to a nationality and statelessness within their mandates, and engaged with States in constructive dialogue in order to support them in conducting law reforms and the implementation of reformed laws. 42 36 Experience of Indonesia shared by an expert. See also the experience of Algeria and Morocco in “Good Practices Paper” (footnote 29 above). 37 See, for example, A/HRC/23/23, para. 69. 38 Experience of regional collaboration of civil society organizations in the Gulf region, shared by an expert. See also A/HRC/23/23, para. 68. 39 Such efforts include: the Regional Expert Roundtable on Good Practices for the Identification, Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and the Protection of Stateless Persons in South East Asia (2010); the Brazil Declaration and Plan of Action on strengthening the international protection of refugees, displaced and stateless persons in Latin America and the Caribbean (2014); the seven-point plan of action that resulted from the meeting of parliamentarians held in Cape Town, South Africa (2015); the Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of Member States of the Economic Community of West African States on the eradication of statelessness (2015); the first conclusions on statelessness adopted by the Council of the European Union (2015), and resulting in the establishment of the European Migration Network and sharing of a set of good practices within Europe; the Bali Declaration on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime (2016); the resolution on legal identity for children, adopted by the 134th assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (2016); and the African Union initiative to develop a draft protocol on the right to a nationality in Africa. 40 See Human Rights Council resolution 32/7, para. 11. 41 Ibid., para. 18. 42 Ibid., para. 10. 9