ANNEX List of Recommendations Relating to the Right to a Nationality to the United Arab Emirates Before UN Mechanisms UPR UPR 1ST CYCLE NOTED To consider the possibility of introducing amendments to national laws on citizenship, so that female citizens married to non-citizens can pass on their nationality to their children in the same way that male citizens married to non-citizens can do. (Germany). 78 UPR 2ND CYCLE NOTED Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (Ecuador); and Solve the situation of statelessness of the different populations living in the territory by recognizing their ties and long stay in the country (Mexico); ACCEPTED Take steps to protect human rights defenders, journalists and religious minorities from discrimination, harassment or intimidation, including the arbitrary deprivation of nationality (Austria); and Withdraw the reservations to CEDAW, in particular articles 2(f), 9 and 15(2) (Slovenia).79 UPR 3RD CYCLE NOTED Accede to and implement the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (Kenya); Accede to and fully implement the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 78 UN Human Rights Council, ‘Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: United Arab Emirates’, A/HRC/10/75, (12 January 2009), para. 92.4, available at: https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/documents/201310/ahrc1075unitedarabemiratese.pdf. 79 UN Human Rights Council, ‘Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: United Arab Emirates’, A/HRC/23/13, (21 March 2013), paras. 128.32, 128.73, 128.33 and 128.105, available at: https://www.uprinfo.org/sites/default/files/documents/2013-10/ahrc2313e.pdf. 14