6. Recalling its general recommendation No. 8 (1990) concerning the interpretation and application of article 1 (1) and (4) of the Convention, and its guidelines for reporting under the Convention,3 the Committee recommends that the State Party collect and provide to the Committee reliable, updated and comprehensive statistics on the demographic composition of the population, based on the principle of self-identification, including on ethnic minority groups and non-citizens, such as documented and undocumented migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons. It also recommends that the State Party produce disaggregated statistics on the socioeconomic situation of ethnic minority groups and of non-citizens and on their access to education, employment, healthcare and housing, with a view to creating an empirical basis for assessing the equal enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Convention.
28. Recalling its previous recommendations 12 and its general recommendation No. 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (...)
(c) Strengthen its efforts to ensure that all members of the Mugat community are granted national identity documents; (...)
37. The Committee welcomes the measures taken in 2019 to identify and resolve the identified stateless cases, the adoption of an amendment to the Law on Civil Acts to guarantee the birth registration of every child born on the State Party’s territory, and the establishment in 2025 of a procedure for determining statelessness. However, the Committee is concerned about: (...)
(b) The draft law that amends provisions of the Law on Citizenship, approved by the parliament and pending the signature of the President, that allows for the arbitrary revocation of citizenship under vague concepts, including for individuals who acquired citizenship through naturalization and engage in activities that pose a threat to national security or engage in military activities, and restricts the granting of citizenship only to children born in the State Party’s territory to non-citizen parents of Kyrgyz ethnic origin;
(c) Obstacles in the birth registration of children born to asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants and stateless parents, including members of the Mugat ethnic minority group, owing to complex documentation requirements pursuant to article 13 of the Law on Civil Acts, and reports that parents avoid birth registration in order to evade penalties, which also leads to discrimination in accessing education and healthcare (art. 5).
38. The Committee recommends that the State Party:
(a) Develop a data collection system on statelessness to ensure the collection and publication of statistics concerning stateless persons and their economic and social situation;
(b) Refrain from adopting the draft law to amend provisions of the Law on Citizenship, which is pending the signature of the President, and review it to ensure that it is in line with international standards and to avoid statelessness of children born in the territory of the State Party and arbitrary deprivation of citizenship;
(c) Take effective measures to address the administrative shortcomings of the civil registry system and the complex procedures and requirements for birth registration of children born to asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants and stateless parents;
(d) Ratify the Convention relating to the 1954 Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.