Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 35th Session of the Universal Periodic Review Kiribati Introduction 1. The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) make this joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in relation to gender discrimination in the nationality law of Kiribati. 2. The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights1 mobilizes international action for the removal of gender discriminatory provisions from all nationality laws through its coalition of national and international organizations and activists. 3. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion2 is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to promoting an integrated, human rights-based response to the injustice of statelessness and exclusion. Established in August 2014, it is the first and only global center committed to promoting the human rights of stateless persons and ending statelessness. The Institute has made over 40 country specific UPR submissions on the human rights of stateless persons, and also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 34th UPR Sessions. 4. This submission focuses on: I. II. The right of women to confer nationality on children and spouses, without discrimination on the basis of sex; Human rights violations resulting from gender discrimination in the nationality law of Kiribati. 5. This Submission draws on experience with research, advocacy, and awareness raising of the cosubmitting organizations and their partners. 1 For more information about the Global Campaign, see www.equalnationalityrights.org. For more information, see www.institutesi.org. For more information on the Institute’s UPR advocacy, see http://institutesi.org/projects/human-rights-advocacy. 2 1