ISI Database on Statelessness and
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Connecting nationality, statelessness and human rights. Explore and compare information from the international human rights monitoring systems to promote a human rights-based approach to nationality and statelessness.

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Number of results found: 69

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.119. The Naturalization law include all persons of foreign descent proving birth in the Dominican Republic before 2010, whether registered or not, be given state identity documents.

98.119. The Naturalization law include all persons of foreign descent proving birth in the Dominican Republic before 2010, whether registered or not, be given state identity documents.

Recommending State: Australia

Recommendation Noted

Nationality/Identity documentation Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.15. Consider ratifying the conventions on stateless persons.

98.15. Consider ratifying the conventions on stateless persons.

Recommending State: Nicaragua

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.114. Strengthen measures to guarantee the right to a nationality and include necessary safeguards to prevent statelessness of those born in the territory of the Dominican Republic.

98.114. Strengthen measures to guarantee the right to a nationality and include necessary safeguards to prevent statelessness of those born in the territory of the Dominican Republic.

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.128. Avoid the retroactive application of the norms that could result from the execution of the Constitutional Court’s judgment 168/13 and generate situations of statelessness for citizens holding the Dominican citizenship.

98.128. Avoid the retroactive application of the norms that could result from the execution of the Constitutional Court’s judgment 168/13 and generate situations of statelessness for citizens holding the Dominican citizenship.

Recommending State: Spain

Recommendation Noted

Implementing measures - Other

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.18. Take urgent steps to ensure full respect for the right to a nationality, and ratify the August 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which it signed in December 1961.

98.18. Take urgent steps to ensure full respect for the right to a nationality, and ratify the August 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which it signed in December 1961.

Recommending State: Ireland

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.117. Ensure that its treatment of all affected persons is in line with its international human rights obligations and that it seek the technical advice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.

98.117. Ensure that its treatment of all affected persons is in line with its international human rights obligations and that it seek the technical advice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to identify, prevent and reduce statelessness.

Recommending State: Germany

Recommendation Noted

Identification and determination procedures Implementing measures - Other

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.133. Take all necessary measures to prevent statelessness and allow all residents to fully enjoy their fundamental rights in particular persons of Haitian’s descent who have been affected by the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal of the 23rd of September 2013.

98.133. Take all necessary measures to prevent statelessness and allow all residents to fully enjoy their fundamental rights in particular persons of Haitian’s descent who have been affected by the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal of the 23rd of September 2013.

Recommending State: France

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Race/Ethnicity

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.112. Respect every person’s right to nationality in accordance with the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the judgment of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights.

98.112. Respect every person’s right to nationality in accordance with the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the judgment of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights.

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Noted

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.125. Take steps to ensure protection of the fundamental rights of all individuals born in the Dominican Republic, including the offspring of undocumented foreigners who may be at risk of becoming stateless as a consequence of Constitutional Tribunal ruling 168/13.

98.125. Take steps to ensure protection of the fundamental rights of all individuals born in the Dominican Republic, including the offspring of undocumented foreigners who may be at risk of becoming stateless as a consequence of Constitutional Tribunal ruling 168/13.

Recommending State: Canada

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

98.16. Consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

98.16. Consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of
Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments