working together to bring the most crucial refugee protection issues onto the international stage. The foundation of WARIPNET marks the first time in the region that human rights organisations focusing on legal and policy issues have come together with humanitarian service providers for meaningful discussion to develop and implement the best strategies for refugee protection. WARIPNET is giving a voice at the global level to the reality on the ground in West Africa. 6. 7. 8. The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights is a coalition of national and international organizations working to end gender discrimination in nationality laws. Steering Committee members include Equal Rights Trust, Equality Now, ISI, Women’s Learning Partnership and Women’s Refugee Commission, which houses the Global Campaign.1 Equality Now is an international human rights NGO with ECOSOC status with the mission to achieve legal and systemic change that addresses violence and discrimination against all women and girls around the world. Founded in 1992, Equality Now is a global organization with partners and members in every region. Ending sexual violence, ending sex trafficking, ending harmful practices and achieving legal equality are the main areas of Equality Now’s work.2 The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) 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 realising 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. ISI has also compiled summaries of the key human rights challenges related to statelessness in all countries under review under the 23rd to the 38th UPR Sessions.3 Previous UPR of Togo under the First and Second Cycle 9. Togo was previously reviewed during the 12th and 26th sessions of the UPR, in 2011 and 2016 respectively. 10. In the first cycle, during the 12th session, Togo did not receive any recommendations specifically related to Togo’s gender discriminatory nationality law or statelessness, however, Togo did accept a recommendation from Brazil to “take policies and legal measures to ensure equality between men and women”. 4 Such equality cannot be achieved as long as gender discriminatory nationality laws are in place. Togo also received various other recommendations on gender discrimination and gender-based violence5, including a recommendation from the Republic of Moldova to “take necessary measures to effectively combat violence against women and girls and enact legislation 1 For more information, see: https://equalnationalityrights.org/ For more information, see: https://www.equalitynow.org/ 3 For more information, see https://www.institutesi.org/. 4 A/HRC/19/10, Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review on Togo, 1st cycle, 14 December 2011, Recommendation 100.36. 5 See para 23 for information on links between gender-based violence and gender discrimination in nationality laws. For further information, see: https://equalnationalityrights.org/images/zdocs/Impact-of-GenderDiscrimination-in-Nationality-Laws-on-Gender-Based-Violence.pdf 2 2