Statelessness and Inclusion, Women’s Learning Partnership and Women’s Refugee Commission. 7. 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 75 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.1 Previous UPR of Eswatini under the First and Second Cycle 8. Eswatini2 was previously reviewed during the 12th and 25th Sessions of the UPR, in 2011 and 2016 respectively. 9. During the 12th Session, Eswatini did not receive any recommendations relating to the right to nationality or statelessness. However, it did receive recommendations relating to gender inequality and discrimination in laws and practices, including recommendations from: Brazil to combat gender inequality and discriminatory practices and ensure equality before the law; France to adopt new laws in accordance with the principles of CEDAW; Canada to take concrete measures to remove discriminatory laws and practices; and Argentina to ensure equality before the law.3 Eswatini accepted all of these recommendations. 10. During the 25th session, Eswatini received a recommendation from Ghana to “repeal discriminatory provisions in the Constitution and Citizenship Acts”; a recommendation from South Korea to “consider amending its domestic laws to grant women equal rights with men with regard to transmission of their nationality to their children”; from Honduras to “amend legislation that denies Swazi citizenship to children born of foreign fathers”; from Botswana to align national laws in accordance with the principles outlined in CEDAW to address women’s rights, which “include land acquisition, equality and citizenship of children”; from Djibouti to “modify articles 43 and 44 of the Constitution so that Swazi women, in the same way as men, can transmit their nationality to their children and their foreign spouses”; from Australia to “enact legislation to ensure the ability of all Swazi citizens, regardless of their sex, to confer citizenship upon their children”; and from Sierra Leone to “modify its national laws to ensure that mothers can pass on nationality to their offspring regardless of the nationality of the father”.4 Eswatini noted all of these recommendations. Eswatini’s International obligations 11. Eswatini acceded to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in 1999. Eswatini also has 1 For more information, see https://www.institutesi.org/core-activities/human-rights-advocacy Please note that in previous cycles Eswatini was known as Swaziland. It was officially renamed Eswatini on 19 April 2018. 3 UN Human Rights Council, ‘Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Swaziland’ A/HRC/19/6 (12 December 2011), paras 76.23; 77.20; 77.21; 76.24. 4 UN Human Rights Council, ‘Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Swaziland’ A/HRC/33/14 (13 July 2016), paras 109.28; 109.33; 109.36; 109.31; 109.34; 109.32; 109.35. 2 2