Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 40th Session of the Universal Periodic Review. TOGO Introduction 1. Association Question des Femmes, Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO), WARIPNET (West African Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Network), the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights Equality Now and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) make this joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in Togo. 2. This submission focuses on gender discrimination in the Togolese Nationality Code and the lack of safeguards to ensure a child’s right to a nationality and the prevention of statelessness. 3. Association Question des Femmes is a Togolese association with the objective of promoting and protecting women's rights. The organization works primarily through legal means and aims to ensure effective justice for women and reducing legal inequalities between men and women. 4. 5. Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO) is a nongovernmental, non-partisan and secular organisation (NGO) which was created in Dakar on 21 April 1990 by a group of African intellectuals, mostly researchers and teachers at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. RADDHO has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and is an Observer Member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) of the African Union. RADDHO aims to promote, defend and protect human rights in Senegal and in Africa. WARIPNET is an NGO network created in 2000 by 18 West African NGOs. WARIPNET aims to strengthen the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons in Africa by conducting information dissemination, early warning and advocacy targeted at continental and international mechanisms. WARIPNET was created with a number of fundamental purposes, including: sharing experiences among members involved in different aspects of refugee protection; creating a shared platform of action; and 1