Regional declarations and protocols Arab Declaration on Belonging and Legal Identity, endorsed at the Arab League Ministerial Conference on Belonging and Identity, 28 February 2018, Tunis Article 9: Call upon Member States to put an end to all forms of discrimination in the area of nationality and to take concrete steps to amend laws and legislation relating to nationality in order to grant women and men equal rights in conferring nationality to children and spouses and to acquire, change or retain nationality in conformity with international standards and not contrary to national interests; and Article 10: Promote the lifting of reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in relation to provisions which protect the equal rights of women and men to acquire, retain or change their nationality and confer it to children. G E N D E R D I S C R I M I N AT I O N A N D C H I L D H O O D S TAT E L E S S N E S S Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on Eradication of Statelessness Article 3: 3. We affirm our commitment to implement, as appropriate, the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa and to ensure that men and women have equal rights to acquire , change and retain their nationality and confer nationality to their children. Declaration of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Member States on the Eradication of Statelessness “We, Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)… Reaffirm our commitment to implement the relevant international and regional legal instruments on the rights of women to ensure that women and men have equal rights to acquire, change, and retain their nationality and to confer their nationality to their children and spouses…” 15