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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

United Kingdom

24. The Committee is deeply concerned that children and their families can be deprived of their nationality without notice under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, which also retroactively validated deprivation decisions already made but found unlawful by courts. The Committee urges the...

24. The Committee is deeply concerned that children and their families can be deprived of their nationality without notice under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, which also retroactively validated deprivation decisions already made but found unlawful by courts. The Committee urges the State party:

(a) To remove legal and administrative barriers and strengthen legal pathways for all children, including children without a regular residence status, children born in the overseas territories and children in care, to acquire residence status and nationality, including by simplifying procedures and waiving the high fees for all children in need;

(b) To amend the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 to ensure that the best interests of the child are the primary consideration in all proceedings relating to the deprivation of nationality, that the act is not applied to any children who would be put at risk of statelessness or would otherwise be stateless and that citizens are not deprived of their citizenship as a result of actions that they allegedly committed as children.

50. With reference to 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, the Committee urges the State party:

(a) To urgently amend the Illegal Migration Bill to repeal all draft provisions that would have the effect of violating children’s rights under the Convention and the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and bring the Bill in line with the State party’s obligations under international human rights law to ensure children’s rights to nationality, to seek asylum and to have their best interests taken as a primary consideration and to prevent their prolonged detention and removal;

51. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(c) Implement long-term solutions for the regularization of children without a regular residence status, including by ensuring that all such children in the overseas territories are issued identity documents, and strengthen measures to prevent the social exclusion of such children.

Loss/Deprivation (Forced) migration context Access to nationality/Naturalization Nationality/Identity documentation Born abroad Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/GBR/CO/6-7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Luxembourg

135.254 Continue implementing actions for the effective protection of the rights of migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons, particularly in relation to minors. 

135.254 Continue implementing actions for the effective protection of the rights of migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons, particularly in relation to minors. 

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Accepted

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Protection/Enjoyment of rights
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/54/12
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Türkiye

23. The Committee is concerned that refugees and undocumented migrants in the State party experience disproportionately lower birth registration rates and that children of parents facing terrorism-related charges whose nationality has been withdrawn may be at risk of statelessness. Taking...

23. The Committee is concerned that refugees and undocumented migrants in the State party experience disproportionately lower birth registration rates and that children of parents facing terrorism-related charges whose nationality has been withdrawn may be at risk of statelessness. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Ensure the issuance of birth certificates in addition to hospital reports for all children born on its territory, immediately after the birth, with special attention paid to refugee, asylum-seeking and undocumented migrant children, including through the use of mobile registration units, and no-cost birth registration;

(b) Repeal legislation and prohibit practices effectively depriving children of their Turkish citizenship if they or their parents are accused or convicted of terrorism related charges and provide remedies to the children affected.

Remedy/Reparation Loss/Deprivation Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CRC/C/TUR/CO/4-5
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Botswana

145.22 Adopt the necessary measures to finalize the procedure for the accession of Burundi to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, of 1954, and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, of 1961. 

145.22 Adopt the necessary measures to finalize the procedure for the accession of Burundi to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, of 1954, and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, of 1961. 

Recommending State: Cote d'Ivoire

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/54/11
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Burundi

145.139 Repeal or amend all discriminatory provisions in legislation, including article 4 of the Nationality Code and article 122 of the Persons and Family Code. 

145.139 Repeal or amend all discriminatory provisions in legislation, including article 4 of the Nationality Code and article 122 of the Persons and Family Code. 

Recommending State: Latvia

Recommendation Noted

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Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/54/11
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

China

30. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (c) Regularize the status of women from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and other women victims of trafficking who marry, either voluntarily or by forced marriage, or are in an unregistered union and have a child with a...

30. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(...) (c) Regularize the status of women from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and other women victims of trafficking who marry, either voluntarily or by forced marriage, or are in an unregistered union and have a child with a Chinese citizen, and ensure that their children obtain birth registration, are eligible for Chinese nationality and have access to education and health care without discrimination and would be allowed to leave China with their mothers who are defectors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea).

38. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Amend its legislation to recognize dual citizenship, consider ratifying or acceding to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and adopt a national asylum law that is in conformity with international standards;

(b) Ensure that all women, including refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant women have access to civil registration procedures and basic services, that passports are not confiscated on the basis of ethnic minority status and that national security legislation is not arbitrarily used to do so.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Gender Race/Ethnicity International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/CHN/CO/9
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Timor Leste

34. With reference to its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen its mobile birth registration units, in particular in rural and...

34. With reference to its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen its mobile birth registration units, in particular in rural and remote areas, including through the use of modern information and communications technology, and assess the impact of the birth registration campaign;

(b) Collect data on stateless women and girls, disaggregated by age and ethnicity and provide such data in its next periodic report;

(c) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Birth registration International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TLS/CO/4
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Sao Tome and Principe

35. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Make the necessary legal amendments to allow for the automatic transfer of nationality from mothers to their children, regardless of where a child is born; (b) Speedily ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the...

35. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Make the necessary legal amendments to allow for the automatic transfer of nationality from mothers to their children, regardless of where a child is born;

(b) Speedily ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Born abroad Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/STP/CO/1-5
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Portugal

34. Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (c) Ensure that all applicants for international protection at the borders and in reception and detention centres are promptly received,...

34. Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State party: (...)

(c) Ensure that all applicants for international protection at the borders and in reception and detention centres are promptly received, registered, and referred to the asylum authorities and refugee status determination procedures, ensuring the identification of vulnerable applicants, in particular, stateless persons;

Identification and determination procedures
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/PRT/CO/18-19
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Philippines

20. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Takes steps to enact comprehensive legislation on the protection of the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and persons at risk of statelessness, including provisions for fair procedures for the consideration of...

20. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Takes steps to enact comprehensive legislation on the protection of the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and persons at risk of statelessness, including provisions for fair procedures for the consideration of applications and status determination, in accordance with international standards;

(b) Undertake further measures to collect qualitative and quantitative data on the asylum seekers, refugees, stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness in the country in order to assess their protection needs;

(c) Strengthen local birth and civil registration mechanisms in geographically isolated and conflict-affected areas to scale-up birth and civil registration.

35. In accordance with article 9 (1) of the Convention and rule 65 of its rules of procedure, the Committee requests the State party to provide, within one year of the adoption of the present concluding observations, information on its implementation of the recommendations contained in paragraphs 12 (a) (Criminalisation of racist hate speech and hate crimes), 20 (b) and (c) (Situation of asylum seekers, refugees, stateless persons, and persons at risk of statelessness), and 22 (d) (Complaints of racial discrimination and access to justice) above.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/PHL/CO/21-25