Recommendation Ratify without any limiting reservations the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol, as well as repeal all laws that discriminate against women Adjust legislation and practices affecting women and children to international law obligations assumed by Sudan Make further efforts to protect and promote women’s rights in Sudan Repeal all laws that discriminate against women Recommending Country Finland Honduras Republic Korea of Austria 6. The State acknowledged the need to advance gender equality and women’s equal rights, in line with the principle of equality between women and men enshrined in the country’s Constitution. However, while the State noted the positive steps taken in 2005 to address gender discrimination in the Nationality Act of 1994, the State failed to recognise the ongoing and significant discrimination against women that remains enshrined in the Act. The State’s failure to amend its gender discriminatory citizenship law has had significant negative impact on Sudanese women, their children and spouses. Sudan’s international obligations 7. Sudan has acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). It is also party to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It is notable that Sudan has made no reservations or interpretive declarations to the CRC which entrenches every child’s right to acquire a nationality and protects against childhood statelessness (see CRC Article’s 7 and 8). 8. Significantly though, Sudan has not acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954 Convention) or the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961 Convention).