Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 43rd Session of the Universal Periodic Review. The Bahamas Introduction 1. Hollaback Bahamas!, 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), on gender discrimination in the nationality laws of Bahamas, the child’s right to nationality and related statelessness and human rights challenges. 2. Hollaback Bahamas! was started in 2014 as part of a global movement to end street harassment. It has since grown to focus on gender-based violence against women, providing feminist education and training to young people in The Bahamas. The organization is currently in the process of rebranding to express its expanded focus on human rights and the centering of young people in its work. 3. The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights mobilises international action for the removal of gender discriminatory provisions from all nationality laws through its coalition of national and international organisations and activists.1 4. ISI2 is the first and only human rights NGO dedicated to working on statelessness at the global level. ISI’s mission is to promote inclusive societies by realizing and protecting everyone’s right to a nationality. The Institute has made over 80 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 41st UPR Sessions.3 5. This submission focuses on: I. The child’s right to acquire a nationality II. Gender discrimination in nationality laws Previous UPR of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas under the First, Second and Third Cycle 6. The Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“The Bahamas”) was previously reviewed during the third, fifteenth and twenty-ninth sessions of the UPR, in 2008, 2013 and 2018 respectively. 1 For more information, see www.equalnationalityrights.org For more information, see https://www.institutesi.org/ 3 https://www.institutesi.org/pages/universal-periodic-review 2