ISI Database on Statelessness and
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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

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

115.140. Continue to take the vital steps to grant citizenship to children of Bahraini mothers in the same fashion as children of Bahraini fathers as CEDAW and the CRC have pointed out.

115.140. Continue to take the vital steps to grant citizenship to children of Bahraini mothers in the same fashion as children of Bahraini fathers as CEDAW and the CRC have pointed out.

Recommending State: Japan

Recommendation Accepted

Gender

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

115.75. Continue taking temporary measures for granting citizenship to children of Bahraini women married to non-Bahrainis until the draft law amending the Nationality Law comes into effect.

115.75. Continue taking temporary measures for granting citizenship to children of Bahraini women married to non-Bahrainis until the draft law amending the Nationality Law comes into effect.

Recommending State: India

Recommendation Accepted

Gender

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

135.1. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

135.1. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Iraq

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

135.33. Take actions to achieve universal birth registration.

135.33. Take actions to achieve universal birth registration.

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

135.33. Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal birth registration, including by establishing permanent and automated birth registration services in all pre- and post natal healthcare institutions. These services should be accessible to all people throughout the whole country, including...

135.33. Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal birth registration, including by establishing permanent and automated birth registration services in all pre- and post natal healthcare institutions. These services should be accessible to all people throughout the whole country, including in rural areas.

Recommending State: Finland

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

135.33. Take targeted measures to address the situation of girls and the challenge of ensuring the accessibility to registration for indigenous peoples and people of African descent as well as for migrant families. The right of every child to a name and nationality should be guaranteed.

135.33. Take targeted measures to address the situation of girls and the challenge of ensuring the accessibility to registration for indigenous peoples and people of African descent as well as for migrant families. The right of every child to a name and nationality should be guaranteed.

Recommending State: Finland

Recommendation Accepted

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

129.2 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

129.2 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

6. (...) The Committee is further concerned that the State party’s legislative framework for disability is not yet in full conformity with the Convention, inter alia: (...) (c) Existence of discriminatory requirements to acquire Peruvian nationality that prohibits persons with intellectual...

6. (...) The Committee is further concerned that the State party’s legislative framework for disability is not yet in full conformity with the Convention, inter alia: (...)

(c) Existence of discriminatory requirements to acquire Peruvian nationality that prohibits persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities to do so.

7. The Committee recommends that State party bring forward a far reaching strategy to implement all the rights enshrined in the Convention and speed up the review of its legislative framework to bring it in full conformity with all provisions of the Convention, including its core principles, and in particular: (...)

(c) Amend the Act for Foreigners in order to eliminate the requirements that discriminate against persons with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities.

23. The Committee urges the State party to promptly initiate programmes in order to provide identity documents to persons with disabilities, including in rural areas and in long-term institutional settings, and to collect complete and accurate data on people with disabilities in institutions who are currently undocumented and/or do not enjoy their right to a name.

Nationality/Identity documentation Disability Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

28. The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures, including legislative amendments, to ensure the right of foreign and stateless migrant workers and members of their families to marry Tajik nationals and to acquire real estate property.

28. The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures, including legislative amendments, to ensure the right of foreign and stateless migrant workers and members of their families to marry Tajik nationals and to acquire real estate property.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

66. In addition, the Special Rapporteur observed that a significant number of ethnic minorities and children of irregular migrants do not have Thai citizenship or identification documents, which increases their vulnerability to trafficking. The lack of citizenship significantly restricts...

66. In addition, the Special Rapporteur observed that a significant number of ethnic minorities and children of irregular migrants do not have Thai citizenship or identification documents, which increases their vulnerability to trafficking. The lack of citizenship significantly restricts their enjoyment of the rights to education, employment opportunities, health services and freedom of movement, which encourages them to resort to unsafe migration in search of a better life, at the risk of being trafficked. The Government has made progressive efforts to address this situation and amended the Nationality Law to grant Thai nationality to certain categories of ethnic minorities. Furthermore, the Civil Registration Act was amended in 2008 in such a way that all children born in Thailand, whether born to Thai citizens or foreigners, receive birth registration, and anyone residing in Thailand may request an identification number regardless of their citizenship or migration status. While these legislative amendments are positive developments, the implementation of the laws needs to be strengthened.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights (Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Race/Ethnicity Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action