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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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

114.73. Facilitate birth registration and provide easy registration procedures for indigenous children and children of African descent.

114.73. Facilitate birth registration and provide easy registration procedures for indigenous children and children of African descent.

Recommending State: Sierra Leone

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

114.71. Enact legislation that guarantees that all children are registered at birth and are provided with appropriate birth certificates.

114.71. Enact legislation that guarantees that all children are registered at birth and are provided with appropriate birth certificates.

Recommending State: Holy See

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

124.36 Consider granting Qatari nationality to the children of Qatari women married to foreign nationals.

124.36 Consider granting Qatari nationality to the children of Qatari women married to foreign nationals.

Recommending State: Greece

Recommendation Noted

Access to nationality/Naturalization Gender

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

122.36 Strengthen measures to ensure gender equality, particularly in the transmission of nationality to the children of women married to non-citizens.

122.36 Strengthen measures to ensure gender equality, particularly in the transmission of nationality to the children of women married to non-citizens.

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Accepted

Gender

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

124.37 Achieve real progress with regard to women’s rights by reforming the Nationality Act, to ensure gender equality and to give Qatari women the right to transmit their nationality to their children, and by withdrawing reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

124.37 Achieve real progress with regard to women’s rights by reforming the Nationality Act, to ensure gender equality and to give Qatari women the right to transmit their nationality to their children, and by withdrawing reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Optional Protocol thereto.

Recommending State: France

Recommendation Noted

Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

124.38 Amend the legislation to eliminate discrimination against women with respect to the transmission of nationality to their children and the registration of civil acts.

124.38 Amend the legislation to eliminate discrimination against women with respect to the transmission of nationality to their children and the registration of civil acts.

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Noted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

7. Noting that the State party will adopt a new Roma integration strategy in 2015, the Committee urges the State party to ensure that: (a) The strategy contains concrete objectives and benchmarks and a regular monitoring and evaluation mechanism to periodically assess the results obtained...

7. Noting that the State party will adopt a new Roma integration strategy in 2015, the Committee urges the State party to ensure that:

(a) The strategy contains concrete objectives and benchmarks and a regular monitoring and evaluation mechanism to periodically assess the results obtained in improving the socioeconomic situation of Roma, particularly in the areas of housing, health, employment and education...

17. The Committee urges the State party to ensure that its national housing policy prioritizes the needs of marginalized and vulnerable groups who lack access to adequate housing and basic facilities and amenities, such as low-income families, homeless persons and Roma, and to allocate sufficient resources for its effective implementation. In particular, the Committee calls upon the State party to proceed swiftly with its commitment to legalize the Kirtimai settlement in Vilnius without further delay, so as to ensure the right to adequate housing for the Roma population concerned. It further draws the attention of the State party to its general comment No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing, its general comment No. 15 (2002) on the right to water, and its statement on the right to sanitation (E/C.12/2010/1).

23. (d) Take effective measures, including temporary special measures, to ensure that all Roma children complete their basic education, including through awareness-raising campaigns among the Roma community concerning the importance of education to the future well-being of children;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training

Committee against Torture (CAT)

20. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party adopt appropriate legislation and procedures to comply with the principle of non-refoulement and to protect refugees and asylum seekers, in line with article 3 of the Convention, in particular by: (...) (b) Providing protection and...

20. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party adopt appropriate legislation and procedures to comply with the principle of non-refoulement and to protect refugees and asylum seekers, in line with article 3 of the Convention, in particular by:

(...)

(b) Providing protection and rehabilitation support to victims rescued from human smugglers’ camps in southern Thailand and defining the temporary protection regime and related rights granted to Rohingya refugees and stateless persons, including protection from refoulement;

(...)

22. (...) The Committee expresses its concern at reports that the lack of medical care has contributed to the spread of diseases and deaths in custody, as in the cases of Rohingya and the Lao Hmong in immigration detention centres, which were raised by the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

The State party should strengthen its efforts to improve prison conditions in order to end any cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in particular by: (..)

(b) Ensuring the basic needs of persons deprived of their liberty with regard to sanitation, medical care, food and water. The State party should consider transferring responsibility for health issues in prisons from the Department of Corrections to the Ministry of Health;

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Committee against Torture (CAT)

33. (...) In addition, the State party should consider becoming a party to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961).

33. (...) In addition, the State party should consider becoming a party to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954) and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961).

International Instruments

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

11. While it notes the measures taken by the State party to make it possible to acquire and transmit nationality, the Committee notes with concern that persons who have acquired Monegasque nationality through marriage cannot transmit their nationality following a divorce (art. 2). The...

11. While it notes the measures taken by the State party to make it possible to acquire and transmit nationality, the Committee notes with concern that persons who have acquired Monegasque nationality through marriage cannot transmit their nationality following a divorce (art. 2).

The Committee recommends that the State party amend its legislation to make the transmission of nationality possible for all Monegasques, regardless of how they have acquired that nationality.

Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action