Annex Annex Sections: • Contacts at co-submitting organizations • Syria’s international obligations • List of recommendations relating to gender equality in previous UPR cycles Contacts at Co-Submitting Organizations Rasha Altabshi Executive Director Warsheh Team Syria Catherine Harrington Director Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights housed at Women’s Refugee Commission 105 East 34th Street, Suite 180 New York, NY 10016, USA Thomas McGee Co-Director MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati) 33 Clyde Road, Manchester, M20 2JJ United Kingdom Stefania Tantimonaco Officer Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Gestelsestraat 1345615 LJ, Eindhoven Netherlands As Syrian legal experts have argued, addressing the gender discriminatory provisions in the Nationality Law is “one of the most serious tests of the concept of equal citizenship during the transitional period in Syria.62 Syria’s International Obligations 1. Syria has international obligations to protect the right to a nationality and protect the rights of stateless persons on the basis of UN and regional treaties to which it is a party. These include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) (see Article 24.3), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (see Articles 2.2 and 3), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (see Articles 2, 3, 7 and 8), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW) (see Article 2, 9 and 16), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) (see Article 5(d)(iii)), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (see Article 18) and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW) (see Article 29). 62 Ibrahim Draji, The Syrian Mother’s Right to Transfer her Citizenship: Equal citizenship test in the transitional phase [paper published in Arabic], February 3026. 14