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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Bhutan

6. While noting the measures taken to review the Child Care and Protection Act and child rights-related provisions in national legislation, the Committee is concerned about the need for further progress in amending the Child Care and Protection Act and harmonizing child rights-related...

6. While noting the measures taken to review the Child Care and Protection Act and child rights-related provisions in national legislation, the Committee is concerned about the need for further progress in amending the Child Care and Protection Act and harmonizing child rights-related provisions in legislation with the Convention. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(b) Fully align national legislation with the Convention and further address any inconsistencies, including by implementing the recommendations of the National Law Review Taskforce and amending child rights-related provisions in the Child Adoption Act, the Penal Code, the Marriage Act and the Citizenship Act;

19. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendations4 and urges the State party:

(a) To ensure the right of all children, regardless of their parents’ nationality or marital status, to be registered at birth and have access to identity cards, including by: (i) revising the Bhutan Citizenship Act to disassociate birth registration from citizenship and remove the barriers that prevent the birth registration and access to nationality of children of non-Bhutanese or stateless parents; (ii) ensuring that the births of children of unmarried parents, non-Bhutanese parents or mothers with non-Bhutanese spouses are registered in the civil registration system; and (iii) removing the status of “dropout” for children who were not registered within 12 months of birth;

(b) To simplify the documentation requirements for birth registration, particularly for children of parents who do not have the documents required;

(c) To take measures to raise public awareness of the importance of birth registration and of collecting birth certificates;

(d) To ensure that women, including single mothers and Bhutanese women with non-Bhutanese spouses, are granted equal rights to men to confer Bhutanese nationality on their children;

(e) To prevent statelessness among children, develop a procedure to determine the stateless status of children and ensure that every child has the right to a nationality;

(f) To consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

42. Noting with deep concern the lack of progress in repatriating Lhotshampa children from refugee camps in Nepal, the Committee reiterates its previous recommendations and urges the State party:

(b) Ensure that all children belonging to minority groups, including Lhotshampa children, are protected against discrimination and guarantee their rights to nationality, health and education, as well as their rights to enjoy their own culture and practise their religion or beliefs freely.

Identification and determination procedures Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Gender Race/Ethnicity Discrimination - Other International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/BTN/CO/6-7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Guatemala

21. The Committee urges the State party: (a) To strengthen and expand the Network for Dialogue and Registration of the Guatemalan Population and the measures implemented by the National Registry Office, such as awareness-raising events, to ensure birth registration and the issuance of birth...

21. The Committee urges the State party:

(a) To strengthen and expand the Network for Dialogue and Registration of the Guatemalan Population and the measures implemented by the National Registry Office, such as awareness-raising events, to ensure birth registration and the issuance of birth certificates for all children born on its territory immediately after the birth and free of charge;

(b) To adopt specific measures for registering the birth of children in disadvantaged situations, including those born in rural areas and remote areas, children living in poverty, Indigenous children, children of African descent, children with disabilities, children whose parents are deprived of liberty, and migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/GTM/CO/7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Egypt

19. Noting the amendments to the Nationality Act in 2023 granting children of naturalized mothers the right to acquire Egyptian nationality on an equal footing with those born to naturalized fathers, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure universal birth registration for...

19. Noting the amendments to the Nationality Act in 2023 granting children of naturalized mothers the right to acquire Egyptian nationality on an equal footing with those born to naturalized fathers, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Ensure universal birth registration for all children, irrespective of the place of birth or their parents’ status, in particular, by removing the requirement for the father to be present or to submit a marriage certificate under the Civil Status Act for the registration of a child, which creates an obstacle to the registration of certain groups of children, such as abandoned children, children of single mothers, children of migrants, asylum-seekers or refugees and children born to unmarried parents, and facilitate the registration of children in remote areas of the country by providing mobile birth registration systems, as well as proactively facilitating late birth registration, including by raising the public’s awareness about the importance of birth registration;

(b) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

44. Drawing attention to its general comment No. 21 (2017) on children in street situations, the Committee recalls its previous recommendation and calls upon the State party:

(c) To ensure that children in street situations have access to birth registration and identification documentation, education, health care, safe shelters and childcare centres for physical and psychological recovery and reintegration;

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/EGY/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Estonia

21. While noting the amendment to the Citizenship Act (1995) in 2020, the Committee recalls its previous recommendations and recommends that the State party: (a) Establish procedures for the identification and determination of persons as stateless, facilitate the naturalization of children...

21. While noting the amendment to the Citizenship Act (1995) in 2020, the Committee recalls its previous recommendations and recommends that the State party:

(a) Establish procedures for the identification and determination of persons as stateless, facilitate the naturalization of children with undetermined citizenship and collect data, disaggregated by relevant factors, on stateless children;

(b) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;

(c) Consider ratifying the European Convention on Nationality and the Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession.

40. Recalling the joint general comments No. 3 and No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families/No. 22 and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017) on the human rights of children in the context of international migration and its general comment No. 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, the Committee recalls its previous concluding observations9 and urges the State party:

(d) To consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Identification and determination procedures Access to nationality/Naturalization International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/EST/CO/5-7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Paraguay

19. Welcoming the adoption of Act No. 6149/2018 on the Protection of and Facilities for the Naturalization of Stateless Persons, the Committee strongly urges the State party: (a) To ensure comprehensive free-of-charge birth registration and issuance of birth certificates for all children...

19. Welcoming the adoption of Act No. 6149/2018 on the Protection of and Facilities for the Naturalization of Stateless Persons, the Committee strongly urges the State party:

(a) To ensure comprehensive free-of-charge birth registration and issuance of birth certificates for all children born in its territory, immediately after the birth, regardless of their or of their parents’ immigration status, including those who have expressed an intention to apply for asylum and those who are undocumented;

(b) To enforce the provisions of Act No. 6149/2018 related to the registration as nationals of the children of Paraguayans born abroad that are stateless by legal provisions of their country of birth;

(c) To address disparities in birth registration between urban and rural areas, especially in Indigenous communities, ensuring that all births are properly registered;

(d) To review article 56 of Act No. 1266/1987 to ensure that it aligns with non-discriminatory practices and respects the rights to Guaraní identity;

(e) To review the current registration system in order to identify any deficiencies that are preventing parents, especially in rural communities, from registering their children as soon as they are born;

(f) To perform an institutional evaluation with the National Directorate of the Civil Registry, in particular of their territorial offices, and mobilize public discussions starting within the National Council for Children and Adolescents to formulate and execute an institutional strengthening plan;

(g) To coordinate the departmental and municipal councils and the Municipal Advisory Services on the Rights of Children and Adolescents with the respective institutions, with a view to promoting the registration of children and the exercise of the right to identity, and disseminate the new regulations and existing legal and institutional adjustments to strengthen this process;

(h) In the case of Indigenous communities and isolated populations, to propose mobile service operations that, in addition to registration, bring other public services closer, under the conceptual slogan “the State reaches out to the community”;

(i) To ensure through data analysis and the monitoring of the mobile campaigns that all newborns in rural and isolated communities are registered.

Remedy/Reparation Born abroad Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/PRY/CO/4-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Mali

22. The Committee strongly urges the State party: (a) To ensure the registration and issuance of birth certificates for all children born in its territory, immediately after birth; (b) To adopt without delay the national strategy for modernizing the civil registry and accelerate the...

22. The Committee strongly urges the State party:

(a) To ensure the registration and issuance of birth certificates for all children born in its territory, immediately after birth;

(b) To adopt without delay the national strategy for modernizing the civil registry and accelerate the introduction of a digital civil registry system to facilitate birth registration procedures;

(c) To develop special strategies and implement urgent measures to ensure birth registration for children born during displacement, in camps of internally displaced persons or in refugee camps and set up a catch-up system to register all children who have not yet been registered;

(d) To conduct awareness-raising programmes to inform the population about birth registration procedures and the associated rights to a nationality and access to education and health services.

Birth registration Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Doc. CRC/C/MLI/CO/3-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Bulgaria

21. While welcoming the withdrawal in 2020 of the State party’s reservation under article 31 (Law on Withdrawal of the Reservation, of 2020) of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the Committee urges the State party to further consider the withdrawal of its...

21. While welcoming the withdrawal in 2020 of the State party’s reservation under article 31 (Law on Withdrawal of the Reservation, of 2020) of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the Committee urges the State party to further consider the withdrawal of its reservations to articles 7, 21, 23, 24, 27 and 28 of the 1954 Convention.

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/BGR/CO/6-7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

South Africa

21. The Committee notes the progress in birth registration over the past decade and the setting up of offices at major hospitals where birth certificates can be issued directly. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous...

21. The Committee notes the progress in birth registration over the past decade and the setting up of offices at major hospitals where birth certificates can be issued directly. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous recommendations10 and recommends that the State party:

(a) Remove barriers to birth registration and adopt measures to ensure that all children are properly registered at birth, and in particular:

(i) Ensure that legislation, regulations, directives, circulars and standard operating procedures are brought in line with the court judgments; (ii) Remove fees for late registration after 30 days after birth; (iii) Withdraw the requirement for DNA paternity testing for children born to unmarried South African fathers and foreign, undocumented or deceased mothers; (iv) Simplify the birth registration of orphaned and abandoned children by relatives and other caregivers; (v) Increase the number and reach of the mobile registration units for children born in rural areas.

(b) Address existing cases of blocked IDs, particularly those affecting children, and ensure that children whose parents’ IDs have been blocked or have no ID are not stateless and their parents are able to register their birth;

(c) Adopt regulations concerning the practical and administrative steps required for children to acquire citizenship under sections 2 (2) and 4 (3) of the Citizenship Act and ensure that regulations under section 4 (3) do not exclude foreign children with asylum-seeking or refugee parents and children of undocumented or irregular migrants;

(d) Ensure that lack of birth registration does not hinder children’s access to social and child protection services;

(e) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration Discrimination - Other International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/ZAF/CO/3-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Lithuania

23. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, and while welcoming the amendments to the Citizenship Law, the Committee urges the State party to take the necessary steps to introduce legislative provisions to provide for the automatic granting of Lithuanian citizenship...

23. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, and while welcoming the amendments to the Citizenship Law, the Committee urges the State party to take the necessary steps to introduce legislative provisions to provide for the automatic granting of Lithuanian citizenship at birth to persons born on Lithuanian territory who would otherwise be stateless.

Born on territory Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/LTU/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Russia

17. Taking note of targets 5. 1 and 10.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous concluding observations and recommends that the State party: (...) (b) Prevent discrimination against children in marginalized and disadvantaged situations, including children...

17. Taking note of targets 5. 1 and 10.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous concluding observations and recommends that the State party: (...)

(b) Prevent discrimination against children in marginalized and disadvantaged situations, including children belonging to minority groups, Roma children, the children of irregular migrant workers, the children of stateless persons, girls in the North Caucasus and children who do not possess permanent residence registration;

20. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee urges the State party to ensure that all children, including children born to Roma, refugee and asylum-seeking mothers with non-Russian passports or without identity documents born in its territory, are registered at birth and issued with a standard birth certificate. The Committee also recommends that the State party take measures to prevent and reduce statelessness and to protect the rights of stateless children and consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

46. While recalling that the State party’s obligations under the Convention apply not only in the territory of the State party but also in all other territory over which the State party exercises effective control, the Committee urges the State party:

(e) To ensure that no child is deprived of their Ukrainian nationality in violation of their rights under the Convention and that their identity, name and family relations are preserved and protected;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Loss/Deprivation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/RUS/CO/6-7