deprivation of nationality, but which have a similar impact and implications on human rights, without subjecting such decisions to the same tests and standards set out in these Principles. Such measures may include the withdrawal or refusal to renew passports or other travel documents and the imposition of travel or entry bans.55 Recommendations 53. Based on the above information, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States to make the following recommendations to Oman: I. Amend the Nationality Law to ensure gender equality with regard to the acquisition, change and retention of nationality and to enable Omani women to transmit their nationality to their foreign spouses and their children on an equal basis with men; II. Protect every child’s right to acquire and preserve a nationality, without discrimination in relation the child or the child’s parents or guardians, and ensure comprehensive safeguards against statelessness. III. Protect everyone’s right to a nationality, and ensure that national laws comply with international obligations that prohibit arbitrary deprivation of nationality and discrimination, while ensuring the avoidance of statelessness. IV. Amend the Nationality Law to ensure that the government cannot revoke the citizenship rights of persons who exercise their fundamental rights including the right to freedom of expression, assembly and association, with a view to preventing statelessness; V. Amend the Nationality Law to prevent broad discretionary power of the Minister of Interior to adopt proxy measures including the revocation of identity documents as an alternative for citizenship revocation; VI. Withdraw reservations to the CEDAW, particularly the reservation to Paragraph 2 of Article 9 relating to the equal rights of women with respect to passing their nationality to their children]; VII. Withdraw reservations to the CRC and its Optional Protocols; VIII. Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 55 Principles on Deprivation of Nationality as a National Security Measure, March 2020. Available at: https://files.institutesi.org/PRINCIPLES.pdf. Principle 10.2. 12