ISI Database on Statelessness and
Human Rights

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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Number of results found: 2459

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

25. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (2009), entitling a Bangladeshi woman to transmit citizenship to her children but it remains concerned that the spouse of a Bangladeshi woman can apply for citizenship after being a resident in the country for five...

25. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (2009), entitling a Bangladeshi woman to transmit citizenship to her children but it remains concerned that the spouse of a Bangladeshi woman can apply for citizenship after being a resident in the country for five years, whereas the residential requirement for a foreign woman married to a Bangladeshi man is two years only.

26. The Committee urges the State party to amend its legislation on citizenship in order to bring it into full compliance with article 9 of the Convention.

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

106.12. Ratify the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

106.12. Ratify the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Bolivia

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

105.11. Establish institutional structures to ensure birth registration throughout the country, including of the IDP population.

105.11. Establish institutional structures to ensure birth registration throughout the country, including of the IDP population.

Recommending State: Austria

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

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

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

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

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

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

Recommending State: Ghana

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

89.18 Ratify ICCPR and its two Optional Protocols, ICESCR and its Optional Protocol, the Optional Protocols to CEDAW, CAT, CRPD, as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and the 1951 Convention relating...

89.18 Ratify ICCPR and its two Optional Protocols, ICESCR and its Optional Protocol, the Optional Protocols to CEDAW, CAT, CRPD, as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

89.109. Develop a national asylum seeker plan and become a party to the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons along with the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

89.109. Develop a national asylum seeker plan and become a party to the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons along with the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Hungary

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

79.24. Ratify ICCPR and its Optional Protocols, ICESCR and its Optional Protocol, CEDAW and its Optional Protocol, CAT, ICERD, two Optional Protocols to CRC, 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of...

79.24. Ratify ICCPR and its Optional Protocols, ICESCR and its Optional Protocol, CEDAW and its Optional Protocol, CAT, ICERD, two Optional Protocols to CRC, 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

109.12. Address cases of statelessness in the new Constitution’s drafting process.

109.12. Address cases of statelessness in the new Constitution’s drafting process.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

108.36. Ensure that children of internally displaced persons, refugees, asylum- seekers and their families enjoy the right to health, education and birth registration without discrimination.

108.36. Ensure that children of internally displaced persons, refugees, asylum- seekers and their families enjoy the right to health, education and birth registration without discrimination.

Recommending State: Thailand

Recommendation Noted

Birth registration