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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Number of results found: 2414

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

4. Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, its 1967 Protocol and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

4. Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, its 1967 Protocol and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Canada

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

84. Ensure registration at birth of all children, including non-Khmer citizens born in Cambodia.

84. Ensure registration at birth of all children, including non-Khmer citizens born in Cambodia.

Recommending State: Czechia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

17. As pledged in the national report, envisage signing and ratifying the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the International Convention for the protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance.

17. As pledged in the national report, envisage signing and ratifying the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the International Convention for the protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance.

Recommending State: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

20. Take further measures to reduce the number of stateless in the country and sign and ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

20. Take further measures to reduce the number of stateless in the country and sign and ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: Netherlands

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

13. Ratify the two optional protocols to CRC, ICRMW and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

13. Ratify the two optional protocols to CRC, ICRMW and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: Republic of the Congo

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

21. Take the necessary measures to allow stateless children born in its territory to acquire Ivorian nationality and remove discriminatory grounds of eligibility for naturalization, including the requirement that persons must be free of mental or physical handicaps.

21. Take the necessary measures to allow stateless children born in its territory to acquire Ivorian nationality and remove discriminatory grounds of eligibility for naturalization, including the requirement that persons must be free of mental or physical handicaps.

Recommending State: Canada

Remedy/Reparation Born on territory Disability Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

128. Follow upon the recommendation of the Committee on the Rights of Child to seek technical assistance from UNICEF on specific areas, including improving access to education for women and girls and in increasing the rate of registrations births.

128. Follow upon the recommendation of the Committee on the Rights of Child to seek technical assistance from UNICEF on specific areas, including improving access to education for women and girls and in increasing the rate of registrations births.

Recommending State: Malaysia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

43. Take measures to achieve timely registration of all births and create an adequate and credible birth registration system.

43. Take measures to achieve timely registration of all births and create an adequate and credible birth registration system.

Recommending State: Poland

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

9. Ensure effective birth registration of all children, raise the age of criminal responsibility in compliance with CRC and adopt specific measures to strengthen protection of human rights of children from vulnerable groups, such as children in detention, internally displaced children and...

9. Ensure effective birth registration of all children, raise the age of criminal responsibility in compliance with CRC and adopt specific measures to strengthen protection of human rights of children from vulnerable groups, such as children in detention, internally displaced children and children of refugees.

Recommending State: Czechia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

4. Adopt measures to ensure that Dominican of Haitian descent are not denied citizenship or access to civil and birth registration procedures and are not arbitrarily subject to retroactive cancellation of birth and identity documents.

4. Adopt measures to ensure that Dominican of Haitian descent are not denied citizenship or access to civil and birth registration procedures and are not arbitrarily subject to retroactive cancellation of birth and identity documents.

Recommending State: United States of America

Recommendation Noted

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