The Conference adopted the following objectives, activities and opportunities as important areas in
which the League of Arab States and Member States could contribute to the promotion of women's
rights in the area of nationality in the Arab region:
1. To request Member States to support, develop, reform and implement legislation relating to
nationality in conformity with international standards;
2. To request Member States to put an end to all forms of discrimination in the area of
nationality and to take concrete steps to amend laws and legislation relating to nationality in
order to grant women and men equal rights in conferring nationality to children and spouses
and to acquire, change or retain nationality in conformity with international standards and
not contrary to national interests;
3. To provide regional support to promote the achievement of relevant United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals, including goals 5, 10 and 16;
4. To encourage and support the effective implementation of laws, including awarenessraising, publicity, training and capacity-building for those concerned and competent to take
into account the achievement of gender equality, including judges, local leaders and relevant
civil society;
5. To promote the lifting of reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which protects the equal rights of women and men
to acquire, retain or change their nationality and confer it to children;
6. To request the League of Arab States to coordinate with Member States for the exchange of
experiences, good practices and innovative responses to the promotion of women's rights in
the area of nationality;
7. To emphasize the importance of addressing the issues of women's rights and gender
equality within the framework of the 2030 Sustainable Development Plan and the
Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, while recognizing the need to ensure gender
equality, the empowerment of women and girls and legal identity for all; and to encourage
development actors to support the capacity of governments to enforce these efforts;
8. To nominate national focal points to brief the Secretariat of the League of Arab States on the
good practices of Member States, and for the Arab League to hold periodic meetings in this
regard;
9. To work out a regional plan of action to implement the recommendations of the "First Arab
Conference on Good Practices and Regional Opportunities to Strengthen Women's
Nationality Rights";
10. To urge Member States to make every effort to reduce statelessness in the context of the
international obligations of Member States and the application of the Sustainable
Development Goals;
11. To urge Member States to update the 1954 Arab Convention on Nationality in line with
political, social and economic developments;
12. To request the League of Arab States to submit the final communiqué and recommendations
of the “Arab Conference on Good Practices & Regional Opportunities to Strengthen
Women’s Nationality Rights” to the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers at its next session and
to request the League to adopt the conference’s periodicity.