Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council at the 25th Session of the Universal Periodic Review Sudan 1. The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion make this submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in relation to Sudan. 2. The Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (the Global Campaign) is a coalition of international and national organizations that promotes gender equality in nationality laws, so that women and men can confer, acquire, change and retain their nationality on an equal basis. The Campaign includes a Steering Committee of Equality Now, Equal Rights Trust, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, UNHCR and Women’s Refugee Commission. The Campaign was launched in June 2014 at a Side Event at the 26th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, and has conducted several international advocacy activities to encourage states which still maintain gender discriminatory nationality laws, to reform their laws and bring them into compliance with international human rights standards. 3. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting an integrated, human rights based response to the injustice of statelessness and exclusion. Established in August 2014, it is the first and only global centre committed to promoting the human rights of stateless persons and ending statelessness. Its work combines research, education, and advocacy, and it provides expertise to civil society, academia, the UN and governments. 4. This joint submission focuses on continued violations of Sudanese women’s rights with respect to nationality and subsequent violations of the rights of their children and foreign spouses in Sudan in violation of the state’s human rights obligations and commitments to uphold international human rights treaties, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Universal Periodic Review of Sudan under the First Cycle 5. Sudan was first subject to the Universal Periodic Review at Session 11 of the First Cycle, in May 2011. Multiple recommendations were made to Sudan with respect to the advancement of gender equality and women’s equal rights, which were accepted by Sudan. These include: