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order to make reforms to eliminate from their nationality laws all forms of discrimination
against women;
18.
Encourages States to address women’s equal nationality rights, and the
challenge of statelessness and vulnerability that emerges when they are not fully respected
and implemented, when developing, implementing and monitoring national plans of action
or other relevant mechanisms for the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, recognizing the need to ensure gender equality and empowerment of women
and girls and to provide legal identity for all; and encourages development actors to support
the capacity of Governments to implement these efforts;
19.
Also encourages States to develop and implement national plans of action to
end statelessness, taking into account the guidance set forth in the global 10-year campaign
to end statelessness by 2024 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, and further encourages the Office to provide technical assistance to support these
efforts, if requested and as appropriate;
20.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in
coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
(a)
To organize, prior to the thirty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council, a
half-day expert workshop to showcase best practices to promote women’s equal nationality
rights in law and in practice, including the ability of women to confer their nationality on
their spouse;
(b)
To encourage States, relevant United Nations bodies, funds and programmes,
intergovernmental organizations, treaty bodies, special procedures, regional human rights
mechanisms, civil society organizations, academia, national human rights institutions and
other relevant stakeholders to participate actively in the workshop;
(c)
To prepare a summary report on the above-mentioned workshop, including
any recommendations stemming therefrom, and to submit it to the Human Rights Council
at its thirty-sixth session.
42nd meeting
30 June 2016
[Adopted without a vote.]
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