The Conference stressed upon the importance of building on existing efforts to promote women's rights in the area of citizenship and to promote gender equality in the acquisition, change, retention or conferring of nationality in the region, in line with the commitments of Member States, the international human rights conventions ratified by Member States, and their national laws, thereby limiting discrimination and the risk of exploitation and the abuse of women and children. We the participants: Reaffirming the right of every person to the enjoyment of nationality and to be recognized everywhere as an equal person before the law, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, without discrimination; Recalling the traditions of the Arab region and the principles set out in the Arab Charter on Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which promotes the right of all persons to legal identity, family life and family unity, as well as the 2014 Sharjah Principles for the Protection of Refugee Children, which sets out measures to ensure that refugee children enjoy these rights in particular; Affirming the commitment of the Arab region to equality of dignity and equality in law for all citizens without discrimination, as enshrined in the Arab Charter on Human Rights, including articles 5 and 9; Welcoming also recent actions by States to reform their nationality laws or to give a clear commitment to reform to grant equal nationality rights for women and men; Welcoming the progress made by the States of the Arab region at the national and multilateral levels to respond to current humanitarian crises, including solutions to secure legal identity; Valuing the important role and value added of the League of Arab States and its related committees in supporting further solutions through advocacy, technical assistance, capacity-building, information dissemination, research and innovation, knowledge exchange and good practices; Recognizing that each State has the right to legally determine its nationals in conformity with international standards and obligations; Commending the experiences of the Arab States and the steps taken to promote women's rights and equality with regards to nationality; Recognizing that situations of conflict, asylum and forced displacement threaten the rights and safety of women, children and affected families, whose vulnerability is compounded by the absence of documentation necessary for the composition of the family, the protection of its unity, identity, personal status and the nationality of its children; Recalling the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the fifth of which calls for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by 2030, and target 10.3, which calls for the repeal of laws and the elimination of discriminatory policies, and goal 16.9, which calls for universal access to legal identity, including birth registration of all children by 2030 as a basis for improving social protection for all and, in particular, of the most marginalized groups, and thereby, facilitating access to assistance in crises and promoting women's empowerment and reducing mortality especially newborns, which can be avoided;