Sex discrimination in nationality laws can result in significant violations of children’s rights, as well as the rights of women and their foreign spouses, including: statelessness; lack of access to public education, healthcare and other services; increased risk of gender-based violence; impeded family reunification; unemployment; social alienation and psychological damage.7 This alienation can result in future security threats for a State where a proportion of their population feels indefinitely marginalized. We therefore respectfully request the Committee explore further with the State Party any harmful impacts of its sex discriminatory nationality law, such as on children’s right to healthcare and to education under Articles 24 and 28 respectively, and recommend swift and comprehensive changes to remedy all breaches of the CRC. Finally we urge the Committee to raise with the government of Saudi Arabia in its List of Issues the following questions with regard to violations of children’s rights resulting from sex discrimination in the country’s nationality law.  Given the violations of children’s rights resulting from sex discrimination in the Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Arabian Citizenship System, what steps is the government taking and within what timeframe to amend the nationality law to ensure that women citizens have the same rights as men to confer nationality on their children and their foreign spouses?  What support might be needed, if any, to further this process? Thank you very much for your kind attention, and please do not hesitate to contact us if we can provide further information. Catherine Harrington Campaign Manager Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights c/o Women’s Refugee Commission 122 East 42nd St., 11th Floor New York, NY 10168 Email: CatherineH@wrcommission.org 7 Amal De Chickera Co-Director Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion Gestelsestraat 134 5615 LJ Eindhoven The Netherlands Email: amal.dechickera@institutesi.org Equality Now, Campaign to End Sex Discrimination in Nationality and Citizenship Laws, 2013 (updated May 2014, Feb. 2015), available at http://www.equalitynow.org/sites/default/files/NationalityReport_EN.pdf