removing provisions in nationality laws that discriminate against women in their ability to confer their nationality to their children on an equal basis as men. Of the 66 States that delivered pledges, two States, Liberia and Eswatini, pledged to resolve issues of gender discrimination in their respective nationality laws before the end of the #IBelong Campaign in 2024.11 Unequal ability of women to confer nationality on their children The table below uses a color scheme to divide the laws of the 25 States into three categories. The laws of the first group of countries (red) have nationality laws which do not allow mothers to confer their nationality on their children with no, or very limited, exceptions – these laws create the greatest risk of statelessness. The laws of the second group of countries (orange) allow women to confer nationality in some circumstances (for example, some make exceptions for mothers to confer nationality if the father is unknown or stateless and some establish a discretionary procedure for conferral of nationality upon application). The laws of the third group of countries (yellow) also limit the conferral of nationality by women but additional guarantees ensure that statelessness will rarely arise. The Bahamas Eswatini Kuwait Mauritania Somalia Bahrain Iran Lebanon Nepal Sudan Barbados Iraq Liberia Oman Syria Brunei Darussalam Jordan Libya Qatar Togo Burundi Kiribati Malaysia Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates 11 6 An additional four States made pledges concerning gender discrimination that are outside the scope of this survey. U N H C R > B A C K G R O U N D N O T E O N G E N D E R E Q U A L I T Y, N AT I O N A L I T Y L A W S A N D S TAT E L E S S N E S S 2 0 2 0