A/HRC/RES/32/7 Noting also the provisions of international and regional human rights and other instruments recognizing the right of every child to acquire a nationality and specifying the obligations of States parties to register every child immediately after birth, including internally displaced, refugee and migrant children, inter alia, article 24, paragraphs 2 and 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and article 18, paragraph 1 (a) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the role that birth registration plays in confirming nationality and preventing statelessness, Recalling that, following the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, delegates from 189 countries pledged, based on the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, to revoke any remaining laws that discriminate on the basis of sex, Noting the pledge made in the political declaration of the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women to take further concrete action to ensure the full, effective and accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, including through strengthened implementation of laws, policies, strategies and programme activities for all women and girls, and the agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixtieth session, in which it further urged States to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls through the removal, where they exist, of discriminatory provisions in legal frameworks, including punitive provisions, and setting up legal, policy, administrative and other comprehensive measures, including temporary special measures as appropriate, to ensure women’s and girls’ equal and effective access to justice and accountability for violations of human rights of women and girls,1 Welcoming the global 10-year campaign to end statelessness by 2024 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which calls for the removal of gender-based discrimination from nationality laws worldwide as a crucial step to eradicating statelessness, Welcoming also the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights by an international coalition of organizations concerned by this issue, Welcoming further the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,2 recalling that it includes targets on eliminating discrimination against all women and girls, eliminating all discriminatory laws, policies and practices and providing a legal identity for all, and recognizing that equal nationality rights for women can contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, Welcoming the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on discrimination against women on nationality-related matters, including the impact on children,3 as requested by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 20/4, Welcoming also the recent actions taken by States to reform, or make a clear commitment to reform, their nationality laws to grant equal nationality rights to women, Noting recent regional initiatives to reform nationality laws that discriminate against women and girls, such as the 2015 Abidjan Declaration of Ministers of Member States of the Economic Community of West African States on the eradication of statelessness, the 1 2 3 2 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2016, Supplement No. 7 (E/2016/27), chap. I, para. 23 (d). General Assembly resolution 70/1. A/HRC/23/23.

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