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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Monaco

23. The Committee urges the State party to pursue its efforts to adopt legislation establishing the same right for men and women to pass on Monegasque nationality to their children, regardless of the manner in which nationality was acquired.

23. The Committee urges the State party to pursue its efforts to adopt legislation establishing the same right for men and women to pass on Monegasque nationality to their children, regardless of the manner in which nationality was acquired.

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CRC/C/MCO/CO/2-3
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Cambodia

31. The Committee calls upon the State party: (a) To intensify efforts to facilitate the birth registration of children born to Vietnamese mothers and their acquisition of citizenship; (b) To consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961...

31. The Committee calls upon the State party:
(a) To intensify efforts to facilitate the birth registration of children born to Vietnamese mothers and their acquisition of citizenship;
(b) To consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration Gender International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/KHM/CO/4-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

China

40. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Reform family planning policies in order to remove all forms of penalties and practices that deter parents or guardians from registering the birth of their children; (b) Abandon the hukou system in order to ensure birth registration...

40. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Reform family planning policies in order to remove all forms of penalties and practices that deter parents or guardians from registering the birth of their children;

(b) Abandon the hukou system in order to ensure birth registration for all children, especially for children of migrant workers;

(c) Simplify, streamline and facilitate the process of birth registration by removing all financial and administrative barriers associated with the process and improving services, including availability and access to birth registry services for parents and guardians;

(d) Intensify community sensitization and public awareness of the importance of birth registration, including among government agencies and in rural areas;

(e) Seek technical assistance from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), among others, to implement these recommendations.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/CHN/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Sao Tome and Principe

30. The Committee urges the State party to take further measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth and that the national legislation regulating birth registration is in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Convention, including by: (a) Ensuring...

30. The Committee urges the State party to take further measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth and that the national legislation regulating birth registration is in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Convention, including by:
(a) Ensuring adequate staffing to register all babies, including those born on weekends;
(b) Ensuring that birth registration and the issuance of birth certificates are provided free of charge in practice;
(c) Providing adequate and accessible mechanisms to enforce free birth registration and to report on officials seeking informal fees for birth registration, and imposing commensurate sanctions on perpetrators;
(d) Abolishing fines for late birth registrations and allowing for birth certificates to be issued up to the age of 18 years.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/STP/CO/2-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Kuwait

36. In the light of its recommendation of 1998 (CRC/C/15/Add.96, para. 20) and those of other treaty bodies, the Committee urges the State party to abide by its obligation to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered at birth and acquire a...

36. In the light of its recommendation of 1998 (CRC/C/15/Add.96, para. 20) and those of other treaty bodies, the Committee urges the State party to abide by its obligation to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered at birth and acquire a nationality, irrespective of the child’s or his or her parents’ or legal guardians’ sex, race, religion or ethnicity, social origin or status. The Committee urges the State party to take immediate action to:

(a) Ensure gender equality in the 1959 Nationality Act in order for all children born to a Kuwaiti mother and non-Kuwaiti father to automatically acquire their mother’s nationality;
(...) 
(c) Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

Birth registration Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/KWT/CO/2
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Tajikistan

32. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (d) Take the measures necessary to address the statelessness of women and children in the State party, including through amendment and enactment of relevant legislation, as well as through compulsory birth registration; (e) Ratify the...

32. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...)

(d) Take the measures necessary to address the statelessness of women and children in the State party, including through amendment and enactment of relevant legislation, as well as through compulsory birth registration;
(e) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TJK/CO/4-5
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Benin

25. The Committee recommends that the State party amend Act No. 65-17 of 23 June 1965 on nationality with a view to granting Beninese women equal rights with Beninese men regarding the retention or loss of their nationality, in addition to the transmission of Beninese nationality to their...

25. The Committee recommends that the State party amend Act No. 65-17 of 23 June 1965 on nationality with a view to granting Beninese women equal rights with Beninese men regarding the retention or loss of their nationality, in addition to the transmission of Beninese nationality to their foreign spouses. The Committee also calls upon the State party to increase its efforts to facilitate access to birth registration services for all women, especially for poor and rural women who do not give birth in a health facility, and to consider establishing a monitoring mechanism to ensure the enforcement of its regulatory framework in remote and rural areas.

Birth registration Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/BEN/CO/4
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Burkina Faso

29. The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and provided with personal identity documents in accordance with article 29 of the Convention, and encourages the State party to relaunch the free...

29. The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and provided with personal identity documents in accordance with article 29 of the Convention, and encourages the State party to relaunch the free birth registration campaign if at all possible. The Committee also recommends that the State party continue to facilitate the presence of the civil registry services in maternity wards, particularly in rural areas, and to raise the awareness of migrant workers and members of their families, particularly those in an irregular situation, of the importance of birth registration.

41. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the identity cards issued to refugees are fully recognized in the State party and urges it to take all appropriate measures to regularize the situation of migrant workers and members of their families who are in an irregular situation, to avoid them remaining in that situation for an extended period and to ensure that they have effective access to information on the procedures in force for the regularization of their situation.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CMW/C/BFA/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

El Salvador

40. The Committee calls on the State party to ensure that children with disabilities are entered in the civil registry at birth.

40. The Committee calls on the State party to ensure that children with disabilities are entered in the civil registry at birth.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRPD/C/SLV/CO/1
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Morocco

34. The Committee recommends that the State party take adequate measures to end the abuse and violations to which migrant workers and members of their families are subjected. Specifically, it urges the State party to establish a mechanism for monitoring the activities of the Moroccan...

34. The Committee recommends that the State party take adequate measures to end the abuse and violations to which migrant workers and members of their families are subjected. Specifically, it urges the State party to establish a mechanism for monitoring the activities of the Moroccan authorities responsible for or involved in migration procedures so as to ensure that abuses and violations committed against migrant workers and their family members, such as the confiscation and destruction of their identity documents, are the subject of inquiries and that those responsible are prosecuted and punished in accordance with article 21 of the Convention.

38. The Committee recommends that the State party take the measures necessary to ensure that all children of migrant workers, including those in an irregular situation, are registered when born.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CMW/C/MAR/CO/1