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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Niger

7. The Committee recommends that the State party provide statistics disaggregated by sex and age on the socio-economic situation of ethnic groups as well as foreigners, including asylum-seekers, refugees and stateless persons, and on their access to education, employment, health care and...

7. The Committee recommends that the State party provide statistics disaggregated by sex and age on the socio-economic situation of ethnic groups as well as foreigners, including asylum-seekers, refugees and stateless persons, and on their access to education, employment, health care and housing and their participation in public and political life, with a view to creating an empirical basis for assessing the equal enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Convention. (...)

21. In the light of its general recommendation 29 (2002) on descent-based discrimination, the Committee recommends that the State party address as a matter of priority the structural and systemic causes of descent-based discrimination. The Committee also recommends that the State party take the necessary measures to ensure that persons of slave descent have access to an identity and ensure their access to education, employment and health services. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure birth registration of children of slave descent. (...)

Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/NER/CO/22-25
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Argentina

37. Taking into account its previous concluding observations, and in the light of its general recommendation No.30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State party:  (...) e) Take the necessary measures, including at the provincial level, to...

37. Taking into account its previous concluding observations, and in the light of its general recommendation No.30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State party: 

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e) Take the necessary measures, including at the provincial level, to ensure access to members of the Nivaclé community to birth certificates and identity documents.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CERD/C/ARG/CO/24-26
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Japan

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

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

Recommending State: Togo

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/53/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Japan

158.23 Consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 

158.23 Consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 

Recommending State: Cote d'Ivoire

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/53/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Sri Lanka

65.294 Ensure the socio-economic growth and address the marginalization faced by the formerly stateless Tamils of Indian origin in the country. 

65.294 Ensure the socio-economic growth and address the marginalization faced by the formerly stateless Tamils of Indian origin in the country. 

Recommending State: South Africa

Recommendation Noted

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Protection/Enjoyment of rights
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/53/16
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Zambia

127.183 Continue to adopt measures to facilitate the registration of all births and increase the rate of issuance of birth certificates. 

127.183 Continue to adopt measures to facilitate the registration of all births and increase the rate of issuance of birth certificates. 

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Accepted

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Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/53/14
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Switzerland

39.27 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

39.27 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Cote d'Ivoire

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/53/12
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Switzerland

39.26 Accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness which would improve the rights of stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness on its territory. 

39.26 Accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness which would improve the rights of stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness on its territory. 

Recommending State: North Macedonia

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/53/12
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Switzerland

39.28 Become party to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. 

39.28 Become party to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. 

Recommending State: Azerbaijan

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/53/12
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Switzerland

39.27 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

39.27 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Republic of the Congo

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/53/12