ANNEX 1: STATUS OF RATIFICATION OF MAIN TREATIES RELATED TO STATELESSNESS International Convention on the Elimintation of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (1966) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) Optional Protocol Related to ICCPR (1966) Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1967) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979) Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) Convention on the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (1990) X X X X X X X Kuwait X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X KSA X X X Lebanon X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Oman X X X Qatar X X X Syria X X X X X X X X X X X X X Oct, 08 Feb, 09 Feb, 09 Country Algeria Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) X X Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) Bahrain Egypt X Iraq Israel* X X Jordan Libya Mauritania Morocco Tunisia X X X X X X X UAE Yemen Status as at X X X X X X X X Oct, 08 Feb, 08 Aug, 08 X X Feb, 09 Feb, 09 Feb, 09 X X Feb, 09 The date indicated for each treaty is that of adoption and not of entry into force *Israel is included based on its established legal responsibility in the OPT (see relevant UN Security Council Resolutions, 2004 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the legal consequences on building of a wall in the OPT and UN treaty bodies concluding observations on Israel, such as those of the Human Rights Committee in 1998) 36