ISI Database on Statelessness and
Human Rights

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: 2530

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

26. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to ensure free and immediate birth registration, including the issuance of birth certificates for all children, by means of accessible and expeditious registration procedures. The Committee further recommends that the...

26. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to ensure free and immediate birth registration, including the issuance of birth certificates for all children, by means of accessible and expeditious registration procedures. The Committee further recommends that the State party:

(a) Increase availability and access to registry services and strengthen sensitization and training for registration officers on relevant laws to ensure the registration of all children, including refugee children immediately after birth;

(b) Intensify community sensitization and public awareness of the importance of birth registration, including among refugee populations and in urban areas;

(c) Amend Law No. 14/2008 in order to remove penalties of imprisonment and all legal and procedural barriers that impede birth registration; and

(d) Seek technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) among others, for the implementation of these recommendations.

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

170.292. Adopt legislative and administrative measures that would give greater coverage to the protection of the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons.

170.292. Adopt legislative and administrative measures that would give greater coverage to the protection of the rights of refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons.

Recommending State: Niger

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

109.50. Adopt all types of measures to ensure universal birth registration for all children, regardless of the circumstances in which they were born or the civil or immigration status of their parents, while also facilitating the registration of children of underage mothers or mothers living...

109.50. Adopt all types of measures to ensure universal birth registration for all children, regardless of the circumstances in which they were born or the civil or immigration status of their parents, while also facilitating the registration of children of underage mothers or mothers living in rural areas.

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

83.2. Include legislative safeguard against statelessness with regards to children born in its territory, who would otherwise be stateless, to acquire Tuvaluan nationality.

83.2. Include legislative safeguard against statelessness with regards to children born in its territory, who would otherwise be stateless, to acquire Tuvaluan nationality.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

Born on territory Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

83.1. Consider the possibility of amending the National Constitution to include a safeguard against statelessness, which establishes the acquisition of Tuvaluan nationality for children born in the territory who otherwise would be stateless.

83.1. Consider the possibility of amending the National Constitution to include a safeguard against statelessness, which establishes the acquisition of Tuvaluan nationality for children born in the territory who otherwise would be stateless.

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Accepted

Born on territory Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.23 Accede to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

131.23 Accede to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Djibouti

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.91 Launch a Universal Birth Registration Strategy to improve the level of birth registration in the country.

131.91 Launch a Universal Birth Registration Strategy to improve the level of birth registration in the country.

Recommending State: Sierra Leone

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.89 Promote equal treatment before the law, including through social protection, the right to birth registration, and the right to an equal use of natural resources.

131.89 Promote equal treatment before the law, including through social protection, the right to birth registration, and the right to an equal use of natural resources.

Recommending State: Thailand

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.90 Apply a strategy of universal registration of births.

131.90 Apply a strategy of universal registration of births.

Recommending State: Moldova

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

136.20. Ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its Optional Protocol of 1967, and accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

136.20. Ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its Optional Protocol of 1967, and accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Noted

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