Previous UPR of Liberia under the First and Second Cycle 6. Liberia was previously reviewed during the 9th and 22nd sessions of the UPR, in 2011 and 2015 respectively. During the first cycle, Liberia received no recommendations relevant to nationality, statelessness or birth registration. During the second cycle, Liberia received five relevant recommendations, including four on gender discrimination in nationality laws and one on birth registration, and accepted all. These recommendations are set out below: I. Kenya: “take steps to harmonize her nationality laws in order to provide women with the right to pass on their rights of nationality to children born abroad, on an equal basis with men”; II. Mexico: “modify its legislation on nationality so as to guarantee equal rights for men and women with respect to the handing down of nationality to their children and spouses”; III. Senegal: “do more to fight discrimination against Liberian women by allowing them to transmit their nationalities to their children and their spouses”; IV. Switzerland: “guarantee women the same right as men to transmit their nationality to their children, in particular by deleting Section 20.1 (b) of Part III of the “Law on Immigration and Nationality””; and, V. Turkey: “further improve the birth registration system and support it by awareness-raising activities, in order to boost the registration numbers”. Liberia’s International obligations 7. Liberia acceded to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons in 1964 and to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in 2004. Liberia also has international obligations to protect the right to a nationality and protect the rights of stateless persons on the basis of the core UN and treaties to which it is a party. These include, among others, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR article 24.3), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR - articles. 2.2 and article 3), the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC - articles 2, 3, 7 and 8), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW - article 9), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD - article 5(d)(iii)), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD - article 18), and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW article 29). Furthermore, the right to a nationality is protected under Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 8. Liberia also has relevant regional obligations, including through ratification of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which provides for the right to a name and nationality for every child in its Article 6. Liberia also signed the Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of ECOWAS Member States on the Eradication of Statelessness, which includes a commitment to ensure nationality laws uphold gender equality in line with States’ commitments under CEDAW and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human 2