Recommendations 38. Drawing on the information provided in this submission, the co-submitting organisations urge Member States to make the following recommendations to The Bahamas: I. Remove all remaining gender discriminatory provisions in the Constitution and Nationality Act in order to enshrine: married and unmarried women’s ability to confer nationality on children and spouses on an equal basis with married and unmarried men; and the ability of men and women to confer nationality on children on an equal basis regardless of their sex, marital status, or pre-Independence birth outside of the country. II. Remove all reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention. Remove its reservation to Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. III. Take steps to ensure that all children and adults who have been denied access to Bahamian citizenship due to gender discriminatory nationality laws, are granted nationality and in the interim, that they fully enjoy their other human rights on a non-discriminatory and equal basis. IV. Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on to Reduction of Statelessness to ensure the development of legislation and regulations which ensure every child’s right to a nationality and that no child is born stateless in The Bahamas.