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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

France

42. The Committee recommends that efforts be continued to ensure birth registration for all children on the territory of the State party. It further reiterates its previous recommendation urging the State party to increase its efforts to ensure birth registration for all children in French...

42. The Committee recommends that efforts be continued to ensure birth registration for all children on the territory of the State party. It further reiterates its previous recommendation urging the State party to increase its efforts to ensure birth registration for all children in French Guyana.

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

Niger

18. The Committee urges the State party, taking into account the Committee’s recommendations during its Day of General Discussion in 2007 on “Resources for the Rights of the Child – Responsibility of States”, to: (...) (d) Define strategic budgetary lines for disadvantaged or particularly...

18. The Committee urges the State party, taking into account the Committee’s recommendations during its Day of General Discussion in 2007 on “Resources for the Rights of the Child – Responsibility of States”, to:

(...)

(d) Define strategic budgetary lines for disadvantaged or particularly vulnerable children and for those situations that may require affirmative social measures (such as birth registration) and make sure that those budgetary lines are protected even in situations of economic crisis, natural disasters or other emergencies;

(...)

36. The Committee urges the State party to strengthen its efforts to ensure that all children born within the national territory, especially Mahamide children, are registered. The Committee calls upon the State party to ensure that institutional registration structures are free and accessible, especially in rural and remote areas. The Committee also reiterates its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.179, para. 61) that the State party accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954).

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/NER/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Mauritania

19. The Committee urges the State party, taking into account the Committee’s recommendations during its day of general discussion in 2007 on “Resources for the Rights of the Child - Responsibility of States”, to: (...) (c) define strategic budgetary lines for disadvantaged or particularly...

19. The Committee urges the State party, taking into account the Committee’s recommendations during its day of general discussion in 2007 on “Resources for the Rights of the Child - Responsibility of States”, to:

(...)

(c) define strategic budgetary lines for disadvantaged or particularly vulnerable children and for those situations that may require affirmative social measures (such as birth registration) and make sure that those budgetary lines are protected even in situations of economic crisis, natural disasters or other emergencies;

(...)

39. The Committee reiterates its concern from the previous periodic review and urges the State party to strengthen and further develop measures, in particular in relation to awareness-raising, to ensure that all children born within the national territory are registered. Furthermore, the Committee urges the State party to create institutional structures at all levels that are compulsory, accessible and free, in order to implement effective birth registration, e.g. by introducing mobile units, especially in rural and remote areas and in internally displaced persons and refugee camps. The Committee recommends that the State party seek technical assistance from UNICEF for the implementation of these recommendations.

68. The Committee urges the State party to: 

(...)

(b) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954.

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/MRT/CO/2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

North Macedonia

8. Put in place a national comprehensive plan for civil status registration and the right to identity, which includes awareness raising-campaigns for parents, guardians and other responsible persons, which will help to speed up the registration of births. 

8. Put in place a national comprehensive plan for civil status registration and the right to identity, which includes awareness raising-campaigns for parents, guardians and other responsible persons, which will help to speed up the registration of births. 

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

North Macedonia

41. Promote the exercise by the Roma of their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular by implementing programmes to facilitate birth registration and the issuing identity documents for this sector of the population. 

41. Promote the exercise by the Roma of their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular by implementing programmes to facilitate birth registration and the issuing identity documents for this sector of the population. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Yemen

6. Take concrete measures to ensure effective birth registration, particularly in remote and rural areas. 

6. Take concrete measures to ensure effective birth registration, particularly in remote and rural areas. 

Recommending State: Norway

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/13
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Republic of the Congo

28. Improve procedures aimed at raising the percentage of children registered at birth. 

28. Improve procedures aimed at raising the percentage of children registered at birth. 

Recommending State: Italy

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Monaco

8. Make the conditions for acquiring and transferring nationality the same for men and women. 

8. Make the conditions for acquiring and transferring nationality the same for men and women. 

Recommending State: Republic of the Congo

Recommendation Accepted

Gender
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Doc. A/HRC/12/3
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Monaco

9. Ensure that relevant rules are applied equally irrespective of sex and adopt legislation to allow the transmission of nationality by naturalized Monegasque women to their children. 

9. Ensure that relevant rules are applied equally irrespective of sex and adopt legislation to allow the transmission of nationality by naturalized Monegasque women to their children. 

Recommending State: Azerbaijan

Recommendation Accepted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/12/3
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Central African Republic

5. Consider ratifying the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless...

5. Consider ratifying the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons; the Convention on the Nationality of Married Women; international conventions on apartheid; and OP-CAT. 

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/12/2