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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Liechtenstein

14. (...) Recalling its general recommendation No. 22 (1996) on article 5 and refugees and displaced persons, the Committee recommends that the State party consider amending the Asylum Act to provide for facilitated naturalization of refugees and stateless persons.

14. (...) Recalling its general recommendation No. 22 (1996) on article 5 and refugees and displaced persons, the Committee recommends that the State party consider amending the Asylum Act to provide for facilitated naturalization of refugees and stateless persons.

Remedy/Reparation Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/LIE/CO/4-6
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Republic of Korea

13. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party (...) establish a system and procedures to properly register the birth of children of refugees, humanitarian status holders and asylum seekers born in the State party, as already recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child...

13. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party (...) establish a system and procedures to properly register the birth of children of refugees, humanitarian status holders and asylum seekers born in the State party, as already recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2011 (CRC/C/KOR/CO/3-4), and of children of undocumented migrants. 

Birth registration
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Doc. CERD/C/KOR/CO/15-16
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Namibia

37. The Committee strongly urges the State party: (a) To strengthen its efforts to ensure immediate and universal birth registration, including through reforms in the Birth, Marriages and Death Registration Act of 1963, and, in the meantime, take immediate special measures to register the...

37. The Committee strongly urges the State party:

(a) To strengthen its efforts to ensure immediate and universal birth registration, including through reforms in the Birth, Marriages and Death Registration Act of 1963, and, in the meantime, take immediate special measures to register the births of all children and provide all children with free birth certificates without any discrimination;

(b) To intensify public awareness campaigns on the importance of birth registration;

(c) To establish effective procedures to identify unaccompanied and separated asylum-seeking and refugee children and immediately take special measures to register their births;

(...) 

(e) To accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Statelesss Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/NAM/CO/2-3
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

28. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that migrant workers who have been deprived of their citizenship have access to effective legal remedies to submit the reasons why they should not be expelled to a third country, in particular when they would face a risk of ill...

28. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that migrant workers who have been deprived of their citizenship have access to effective legal remedies to submit the reasons why they should not be expelled to a third country, in particular when they would face a risk of ill-treatment upon return to that country.

36. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Intensify its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and issued personal identity documents;

(b) Provide training to the relevant law enforcement officers on the systematic birth registration of all children of migrant workers; and

(c) Raise awareness on the importance of birth registration among migrant workers and members of their families, especially those in an irregular situation.

Loss/Deprivation (Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CMW/C/BIH/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Cyprus

47. (...) The Committee also encourages the State party to consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

47. (...) The Committee also encourages the State party to consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/CYP/CO/3-4
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Maldives

9.   The Committee is concerned at article 9 (d) of the Constitution according to which a non-Muslim may not become a citizen of the Maldives (arts. 2, 18 and 26). The State party should revise its Constitution to ensure that religion is not a basis for citizenship.

9.   The Committee is concerned at article 9 (d) of the Constitution according to which a non-Muslim may not become a citizen of the Maldives (arts. 2, 18 and 26).

The State party should revise its Constitution to ensure that religion is not a basis for citizenship.

Religion Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CCPR/C/MDV/CO/1
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Kenya

23. (...) The State party should adopt necessary programmes and budgetary measures to ensure universal birth registration at an early stage in the life of all children born in the territory of the State party. The State party should also ensure that the rights and entitlements of all...

23. (...) The State party should adopt necessary programmes and budgetary measures to ensure universal birth registration at an early stage in the life of all children born in the territory of the State party. The State party should also ensure that the rights and entitlements of all children of Nubian descent, and other children in a similar situation, to citizenship and national identity cards are fully respected.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/KEN/CO/3
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Australia

36. The Committee urges the State party to review its birth registration process in detail to ensure that all children born in Australia are registered at birth, and that no child is disadvantaged due to procedural barriers to registration, including by raising awareness among the Aboriginal...

36. The Committee urges the State party to review its birth registration process in detail to ensure that all children born in Australia are registered at birth, and that no child is disadvantaged due to procedural barriers to registration, including by raising awareness among the Aboriginal population on the importance of birth registration and providing special support to facilitate birth registration for illiterate persons. It further urges the State party to issue birth certificates upon the birth of a child and for free. 

38. (...) With reference to article 8 of the Convention, the Committee further recommends that the State party undertake measures to ensure that no child is deprived of citizenship on any ground regardless of the status of his/her parents.

 

Loss/Deprivation Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/AUS/CO/4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Viet Nam

38. The Committee, recalling its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.200, para. 32), recommends that the State party continue and strengthen its efforts to secure the registration at birth of all children, giving particular attention to children living in rural and mountainous areas, and...

38. The Committee, recalling its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.200, para. 32), recommends that the State party continue and strengthen its efforts to secure the registration at birth of all children, giving particular attention to children living in rural and mountainous areas, and undertake awareness-raising campaigns on the right of all children to be registered at birth, regardless of social and ethnic background and the resident status of parents.

80. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify (...) the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/VNM/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Greece

33. In the light of articles 7 and 8, the Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.170, para. 41), and calls upon the State party to strengthen all necessary measures to ensure that: (a) All children are duly registered at birth, including through improvement of the...

33. In the light of articles 7 and 8, the Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.170, para. 41), and calls upon the State party to strengthen all necessary measures to ensure that:
(a) All children are duly registered at birth, including through improvement of the provision of information on, and easier access to, birth registration facilities; and
(b) All children, especially those from disadvantaged groups, are able to be registered under, and make use of, their full original name as chosen by their parents or other legal guardian.

73. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the core United Nations human rights treaties and the Optional Protocols thereto to which it is not yet a party, namely, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and International Labour Organization Convention No. 189 (2011) concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers.

 

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/GRC/CO/2-3