5. Recalling its general recommendation No. 8 (1990) concerning the interpretation and application of article 1 (1) and (4) of the Convention, and its guidelines for reporting under the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party collect and provide to the Committee reliable, updated and comprehensive statistics on the demographic composition of the population, based on the principle of self-identification, including on ethnic and ethno-religious minority groups and non-citizens, such as undocumented migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons. It also recommends that the State party produce disaggregated statistics on the socioeconomic situation of ethnic and ethno-religious minority groups and of non-citizens and on their access to education, employment, health care and housing, with a view to creating an empirical basis for assessing the equal enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Convention. (...)
37. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Ensure that the revision of its legislative framework is in compliance with international human rights principles and the objectives and purposes of the Convention to combat statelessness, particularly by maintaining the provision allowing Iranian women married to foreign men to transmit their nationality to their children at the time of birth;
(b) Take measures to ensure the availability and accessibility of birth registration and identity documents, which are required for the determination of citizenship, to members of ethnic and ethno-religious minority groups and in provinces inhabited mainly by them, in order to prevent statelessness;
(c) Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;
(d) Adopt a national plan to combat statelessness.
Protection/Enjoyment of rights
Nationality/Identity documentation
Birth registration
Gender
International Instruments
Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action