Statelessness.42 b. During the First Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review43, Oman received a total of eleven recommendations relating to the right to nationality and statelessness. Eight recommendations focused on gender discrimination in the nationality law. Oman noted all four of these recommendations. During the second cycle44, Oman received a total of nineteen recommendations in relation to nationality and statelessness, with all calling for the state to uphold Omani women’s equal rights with men with regard to transmission of their nationality to their children. None of the recommendations were accepted, but were all noted by Oman. c. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) expressed its con- cern45 that the updated Nationality Law, while providing for children born out of wedlock to unidentified parents to be entitled to Omani nationality, only allows Omani women married to non-Omani men to transmit their nationality to their children under strict conditions. The Committee recommended that Oman revise the Nationality Law by removing all gender-based discriminatory provisions. The Committee also recommended that Oman consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. d. The importance of ensuring gender-equal nationality rights has also been expressed by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees through the #IBelong campaign to end statelessness.46 Further, the UN Sustainable Development goals, which are premised on the basis of leaving no one behind and reaching the furthest behind first, aspire to achieving gender equality in law and society and legal identity for all by 2030.47 e. A 2018 Arab League ministerial conference on "belonging and legal identity" resulted in the Arab Declaration on Belonging and Legal Identity48. The Declaration calls on all Arab League members to uphold gender-equal nationality laws, every child’s right to a nationality and to acquire a birth certificate, and to enact reforms where needed. 3. Despite these numerous recommendations, commitments and reiterations of Oman’s failures to protect every child’s right to acquire a nationality without discrimination on the basis of the parent’s sex, children are routinely deprived of their right to their mother’s nationality as a result of discrimination in the nationality law. Annex IV - About the co-submitting organisations 1. Below, are further details on the co-submitting organisations: 42 CEDAW/C/OMN/CO/2-3, 22 November 2017, para 33-34, available at: https://undocs.org/CEDAW/C/OMN/CO/2-3 United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Oman, 17th sess, UN Doc A/HRC/17/7 (24 March 2011). 44 United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Oman, 31st sess, UN Doc A/HRC/31/11 (6 January 2016). 45 CERD/C/OMN/CO/2-5, 6 June 2016, para 25-26 available at: https://undocs.org/CERD/C/OMN/CO/2-5. 46 Action 3 of UNHCR #IBelong campaign calls for the reform of gender-discriminatory nationality laws as a means to eradicate statelessness, see further: http://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/. 47 The Sustainable Development Goals, Target 16.9. 48 https://www.refworld.org/docid/5a9ffbd04.html 43 11