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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Liberia

100.66 Modify its legislation on nationality so as to guarantee equal rights for men and women with respect to the handing down of nationality to their children and spouses. 

100.66 Modify its legislation on nationality so as to guarantee equal rights for men and women with respect to the handing down of nationality to their children and spouses. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/30/4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Ethiopia

34. The Committee urges the State party to: (a) Adopt as a matter of priority a comprehensive birth registration policy and provide all the necessary human, financial and technical resources for its effective implementation, especially in rural areas; (b) Continue to engage with...

34. The Committee urges the State party to:

(a) Adopt as a matter of priority a comprehensive birth registration policy and provide all the necessary human, financial and technical resources for its effective implementation, especially in rural areas;

(b) Continue to engage with development agencies and donors to mobilize the adequate technical and financial resources, and undertake an assessment on the barriers to birth registration and data collection.

68. The Committee urges the State party to:

(e) Withdraw its reservation to the 1951 Refugee Convention regarding primary education and ratify the 1954 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;

(...) 

(g) Ensure that children of refugees are registered at birth;
 

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/ETH/CO/4-5
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Uganda

27. (...) The Committee requests that the State party increase its efforts in ensuring universal birth registration, inter alia by revising the Birth and Death Registration Act as necessary. It should also raise awareness among parents about the importance of birth registration, including as...

27. (...) The Committee requests that the State party increase its efforts in ensuring universal birth registration, inter alia by revising the Birth and Death Registration Act as necessary. It should also raise awareness among parents about the importance of birth registration, including as a means to prevent early marriage and child labour, particularly in rural areas.

Birth registration
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Doc. E/C.12/UGA/CO/1
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.90 Adopt administrative, budgetary, legislative and awareness-raising measures that ensure the right to birth registration of children of indigenous or African origin and from rural areas. 

90.90 Adopt administrative, budgetary, legislative and awareness-raising measures that ensure the right to birth registration of children of indigenous or African origin and from rural areas. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/30/7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.91 Adopt measures to guarantee birth registration of its citizens. 

90.91 Adopt measures to guarantee birth registration of its citizens. 

Recommending State: Romania

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.15 Repeal the constitutional provision making it possible to refuse naturalization on the grounds of physical and/or mental disability. 

90.15 Repeal the constitutional provision making it possible to refuse naturalization on the grounds of physical and/or mental disability. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Disability Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/30/7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.92 Intensify its efforts to ensure birth registration for everyone, especially children and adolescents in rural areas. 

90.92 Intensify its efforts to ensure birth registration for everyone, especially children and adolescents in rural areas. 

Recommending State: Thailand

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Thailand

14. The Committee recommends that the State party continue strengthening its measures to facilitate the naturalization and integration of stateless persons, including by addressing remaining gaps in the Nationality Act, as well as to ensure the enjoyment of their economic, social and...

14. The Committee recommends that the State party continue strengthening its measures to facilitate the naturalization and integration of stateless persons, including by addressing remaining gaps in the Nationality Act, as well as to ensure the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights. It also recommends that the State party consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. E/C.12/THA/CO/1-2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Mexico

28. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen efforts to ensure universal birth registration, including by undertaking the necessary legal reforms and adopting the required procedures at the state and municipal levels. Registry offices or mobile units should be available in...

28. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen efforts to ensure universal birth registration, including by undertaking the necessary legal reforms and adopting the required procedures at the state and municipal levels. Registry offices or mobile units should be available in all maternity units, in the main points of transit or destination of migrants and in communities where children are born with traditional birth attendants.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/MEX/CO/4-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Eritrea

31. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation that the State party strengthen and further develop measures to ensure that all children born within the national territory, including those belonging to minorities and living in remote areas, are registered. The Committee urges the...

31. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation that the State party strengthen and further develop measures to ensure that all children born within the national territory, including those belonging to minorities and living in remote areas, are registered. The Committee urges the State party to create institutional birth registration structures at all levels that are accessible and free, such as mobile units in rural and remote areas and units targeting internally displaced persons and those living in refugee camps, in order to encourage birth registration. The Committee recommends that the State party seek technical assistance from UNICEF and other United Nations specialized agencies in the implementation of these recommendations (see CRC/C/ERI/CO/3, para. 33).

34. The Committee is concerned at the allegation that followers of unrecognized religious denominations, including children, face restrictions in the exercise of their religious faith and practices and are often harassed, persecuted or denied official identity cards.

35. The Committee urges the State party to:

(...)

(b) Immediately reinstate the full citizenship of children and their families who follow unrecognized religious denominations and ensure their equal access to public services, including for the issuance of official identity cards.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Religion
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Doc. CRC/C/ERI/CO/4