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Voluntary Pledges

United States of America

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to engage in strong U.S. diplomacy to advocate for the prevention and reduction of statelessness, and to provide U.S. humanitarian assistance to help protect stateless persons. [Year pf...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to engage in strong U.S. diplomacy to advocate for the prevention and reduction of statelessness, and to provide U.S. humanitarian assistance to help protect stateless persons. [Year pf Completion -]

The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to conduct an external evaluation of the efforts by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to prevent and reduce statelessness. [Y.o.C. 2020]

The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to champion the goal of achieving nationality law reforms in the 25 countries that currently do not allow women to confer citizenship on their children on an equal basis with men.  [Y.o.C. -]

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Gender Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Uruguay

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of Uruguay here commits: over the remaining years of the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, Uruguay commits to work with UNHCR to raise awareness and foster common understanding about statelessness, and to urge States that are...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of Uruguay here commits: over the remaining years of the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, Uruguay commits to work with UNHCR to raise awareness and foster common understanding about statelessness, and to urge States that are yet to accede to one or both of the UN statelessness conventions to do so before the year 2024.

The Government of Uruguay hereby commits: Uruguay commits to the effective implementation of the national law on statelessness (N° 19.682), in order to ensure that all identified cases of statelessness are properly addressed. [Year of Completion -]

Remedy/Reparation International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Kyrgyzstan

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness By the end of 2020, the Kyrgyz Republic commits to adopt Regulation for determining the legal status of a stateless person. By the end of 2020, the Kyrgyz Republic commits to ensure birth registration and documentation by providing birth...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

By the end of 2020, the Kyrgyz Republic commits to adopt Regulation for determining the legal status of a stateless person.

By the end of 2020, the Kyrgyz Republic commits to ensure birth registration and documentation by providing birth registration certificates of the Kyrgyz Republic to those children who do not have birth registration.

The Kyrgyz Republic commits to bring the national legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of birth registration in accordance with international standards to ensure registration of birth of every child born in the Kyrgyz Republic.

The Kyrgyz Republic commits to intensify its work on studying the experience of other State parties to the UN Conventions of 1954 and 1961 on statelessness.

Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Tajikistan

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness (...) To complete the Civil Registration System reform in the country, securing safeguards for universal childbirth registration regardless of the legal status and possession of identity documents by parents. [Year of Completion 2020] The...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

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To complete the Civil Registration System reform in the country, securing safeguards for universal childbirth registration regardless of the legal status and possession of identity documents by parents. [Year of Completion 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan hereby commits to consider the issue of ratification of 1954 and 1961 Conventions. [Y.o.C. 2021]

The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan hereby commits within the National Census of the Population and the Housing Stock planned for 2020 to explore the scale of statelessness through identification of persons at risk of statelessness, stateless persons and persons with undetermined nationality. [Y.o.C. 2021]

Identification and determination procedures Birth registration International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Voluntary Pledges

Turkmenistan

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness Resolve all identified cases of statelessness through granting citizenship, updating determination mechanisms of the legal status of statelessness persons and assistance in their naturalization, as well as reforms of the birth registration system,...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

Resolve all identified cases of statelessness through granting citizenship, updating determination mechanisms of the legal status of statelessness persons and assistance in their naturalization, as well as reforms of the birth registration system, improvement of data gathering on stateless persons as well as access to data. [Year of Completion -]

To achieve an eradication of the birth registration risk of children of undocumented people, as well as to overhaul the methodology on defining the status of stateless persons with consideration of covering the statelessness issue in the upcoming 2022 Population Census, through realization of the National Action Plan by state bodies with participation of international organizations and civil sector. [Y.o.C. -]

To update the registration of stateless persons, and thereby by undertaking a widespread registration campaign, to have a comprehensive statistical picture of the SDGs' implementation and ensure that all stateless persons have a fundamental right – right to citizenship. [Y.o.C. -]

Identification and determination procedures Remedy/Reparation Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Mauritania

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Mauritania hereby commits to register all refugees with the civil registry services in order to obtain a national identification number and enable their inclusion in the national statistical systems. [Year of...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Mauritania hereby commits to register all refugees with the civil registry services in order to obtain a national identification number and enable their inclusion in the national statistical systems. [Year of Completion 2021]

The Government of the Republic of Mauritania hereby commits to issue birth certificates to all children born in Mauritania. [Y.o.C. 2024]

The Government of the Republic of Mauritania hereby commits to facilitate access to civil status registration and documentation services for all refugees in Mauritania. [Y.o.C. Ongoing]

The Government of the Republic of Mauritania hereby commits to accede to the 1961 Convention within the next five years of Campaign #IBelong. [Y.o.C. 2024]

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Republic of the Congo

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness  Finalize the process of accession to the Convention of 28 September 1954 Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention of 30 August 1961 on the Reduction of Statelessness by end of 2019. The Government of the Republic of the Congo...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness 

Finalize the process of accession to the Convention of 28 September 1954 Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention of 30 August 1961 on the Reduction of Statelessness by end of 2019.

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Complete the legislative reform started on 30 May 2016 on the Persons and Family Law in order to eliminate all discriminatory provisions and other articles that may cause statelessness by 2021.

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Set up a national body for the status determination and protection of stateless persons. [Year of Completion 2022]

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Support the process of adoption, signature and ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Specific Aspects of the Right to Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa. [Y.o.C. 2022]

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Ensure that any person identified without a birth certificate in the national census for civil registry purpose shall obtain a birth certificate by 2019. Ensure that there is zero child in the Republic of the Congo without a birth certificate by 2022.

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Pursue awareness-raising activities among the population to encourage the registration of every birth. [Y.o.C. -]

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Undertake a quantitative and qualitative study to gain a better understanding of the situation of groups and individuals living on its territory who are stateless or at risk of becoming stateless, with a view to have reliable data on these population and to find a solution to their situation. [Y.o.C. 2021]

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Birth registration International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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