A/HRC/44/57/Add.1 (a) Amend Law No. 38 of 2005 to allow Qatari women married to noncitizens to transmit without discrimination their nationality to their foreign spouses, and to their children from birth, in particular for those children who would otherwise be stateless; (b) Remove from Law No. 38 of 2005 and its implementation regulations all the provisions that are discriminatory towards naturalized Qatari, and ensure that naturalized Qatari enjoy all human rights without discrimination and on an equal basis with Qatari nationals born in Qatar, in line with the country’s obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; (c) Adopt immigration reforms that reflect the long-term stays of many of its low-income workers, whose lives are currently structured according to a guestworker logic that prevents the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms warranted by their inherent dignity as human beings. 2. Statelessness 73. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Qatar: (a) Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; (b) Reinstate the nationality of all persons who have been arbitrarily deprived of it, including among the Bidoon and the Al-Ghufran clan; (c) Amend Law No. 38 of 2005 to prevent arbitrary deprivation of nationality and to ensure redress and the right of appeal before courts for all persons who have been deprived of their nationality; (d) Prohibit the deprivation of nationality that results in statelessness and remove provisions limiting the right to public and political life of individuals whose nationality has been reinstated; (e) Establish independent and transparent procedures to identify and determine the number and profiles of all stateless individuals in Qatar, particularly among the Bidoon and the Al-Ghufran clan; (f) Publish any decisions pertaining to maintaining or withdrawing nationality from members of the Al-Ghufran clan, even if they have since been repealed. 3. Refugees and asylum seekers 74. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Qatar: (a) Amend Law No. 11 of 2018 on political asylum in order to ensure that it is aligned with the refugee definition under international law, that refugees and asylum seekers are guaranteed civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights without discrimination in conformity with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and that asylum seekers are provided with redress and effective legal remedies in relation to their requests for refugee status; (b) Remove any provisions from Law No. 11 of 2018 that may infringe the principle of non-refoulement; (c) Protocol. 4. Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Undocumented populations 75. The Special Rapporteur recommends that Qatar fully respect the rights of undocumented migrants in accordance with its international obligations, and refrain from holding children and families with children in immigration detention facilities, in 20

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