Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Concluding observations (2019) CERD/C/QAT/CO/17-21 Nationality rights 25. The Committee notes that the Permanent Residency Card Act grants permanent residency to children of Qatari women who are married to non-citizens. However, it remains concerned that Qatari women still cannot transmit their nationality to their children. 26. The Committee recommends that the State party amend its laws to allow Qatari women married to non-citizens to transmit their nationality to their children from birth, without discrimination. Statelessness 27. The Committee is concerned by reported cases of citizens being deprived of citizenship in the State party, which may lead to a risk of statelessness. 28. The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to protect against statelessness. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Committee against Torture Concluding observations (2018) CAT/C/QAT/CO/3 Asylum and non-refoulement 38. The State party should: (d) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Committee on the Rights of the Child Concluding observations (2017) CRC/C/QAT/CO/3-4 Asylum-seeking and refugee children 32. While noting the State party’s efforts to ensure that Syrian children have access to basic education, and commending the enhanced measures for facilitating the issuance of civil and birth registration documents to ensure that every child born in the State party is able to obtain a birth certificate, the Committee recommends that the State party: (b) Consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Nationality 19. The Committee remains seriously concerned that the Nationality Act does not confer citizenship to children of Qatari women and non-Qatari fathers, as it does where the father is Qatari. 7