[1] It was ratified by delegates from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States of America, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Reservations subject to legislative reform of domestic laws were made by the delegates from El Salvador, Honduras, and the United States.
[2] At the Hague Codification Conference in 1930, the issue of discriminatory nationality laws was raised.
[3] In many countries, women lost their nationality upon marriage[4] and had no control over their own assets or children.
[1] The Seventh International Conference of American States agreed that "There shall be no distinction based on sex as regards nationality, in their legislation or in their practice".