SOLVING STATELESSNESS cases of State succession67 as well as both direct68 and indirect69 discrimination. The strongest recommendations are those which deal with arbitrary denial or deprivation of nationality. In 2012 Jordan’s withdrawal of nationality from individuals of Palestinian origin was identified as a violation of international law, in particular Article 24 of the ICCPR and Article 7 of the CRC, despite reported safeguards in the application of the law.70 The fact that the provisions of other treaties were cited demonstrates the extent to which the treaty bodies are willing to make recommendations drawing on the State’s other international law obligations. In this case it is clear that the Committee wished to highlight the particular problems with respect to the deprivation of nationality from children, including as a result of the automatic extension of the withdrawal of nationality to the children when the father’s nationality was revoked. In 2012 recommendations were made to several States to remove gender discrimination from their nationality law,71 but no recommendations on this topic were made between 2013 and 2015.72 On one occasion the Committee on Racial Discrimination explicitly recalled “that the scope of national sovereignty with regard to nationality is limited in terms of respect for human rights, specifically the principle of nondiscrimination” and recommended that the State respect the principle of non-discrimination with regard to access to nationality.73 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 CERD, Concluding observations on the combined twelfth to sixteenth periodic reports of the Sudan, 12 June 2015, CERD/C/SDN/CO/12-16, para. 19. CERD, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Kuwait, 4 April 2012, CERD/C/KWT/CO/15-20, paras. 17-18. CERD, Concluding observations on the combined fifteenth to twenty-first periodic reports of Iraq, 22 September 2014, CERD/C/IRQ/CO/15-21, para. 17. CERD, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Jordan, 4 April 2012, CERD/C/JOR/CO/13-17, para. 12. Ibid., para. 11; CERD, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Qatar, 13 April 2012, CERD/C/QAT/ CO/13-16, para. 16; CERD, Concluding observations: Kuwait, supra n68, para. 18; CERD, Concluding observations concerning the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth periodic reports of Senegal, 24 October 2012, CERD/C/SEN/ CO/16-18, para. 19. Two States which maintain gender discriminatory nationality laws were reviewed in this period: Iraq in 2014 and Sudan in 2015. However, Oman, which was reviewed in 2016, did receive a recommendation on this subject. CERD, Concluding observations on the combined second to fifth periodic reports of Oman, 6 June 2016, CERD/C/OMN/CO/25, paras. 25-26. CERD, Concluding observations on the thirteenth and fourteenth periodic 37