Mongolia (three recommendations) One recommendation on birth registration and legal identity • One recommendation on acquisition of citizenship for otherwise stateless children • One recommendation on acceding to the statelessness conventions Issue What the Committee Said Birth registration Strengthen efforts to provide all children with legal identity through birth registration, including and legal identity Kazakh children, those who migrate within the territory of the State party, and those who were • Acquisition citizenship for otherwise stateless children Accessions born at home or without midwife support Take all necessary measures to grant Mongolian citizenship to all children residing in the State party who would otherwise be stateless, particularly Kazakh children who have returned to Mongolia Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961, and bring its legislation in line with these international instruments. Qatar (three recommendations) • • One recommendation on gender discrimination in nationality laws Two recommendations on acceding to the statelessness conventions Issue Elimination of gender discriminatory provisions in nationality laws Accessions What the Committee Said What the Committee didn’t say The Committee urges Qatar to review its legislation on nationality to ensure that nationality can be transmitted to children through both the maternal and paternal line without distinction, in particular, for those children who would otherwise be stateless No recommendations on: gender discrimination in nationality laws impact on foreign spouses improving data on stateless children residing in Qatar, as well as children residing in Qatar who are not Qatari nationals and who have Qatari mothers Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961 Seek technical assistance for the implementation of these recommendations from, among others, UNHCR and UNICEF No relevant recommendations were made to Romania.