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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

United Arab Emirates

25. (...)The Committee recommends that the State party, in implementing temporary special measures, pay special attention to the provision of pensions and services to elderly women, along with the provision of services to Bedouin, stateless and migrant women and girls, women and girls with...

25. (...)The Committee recommends that the State party, in implementing temporary special measures, pay special attention to the provision of pensions and services to elderly women, along with the provision of services to Bedouin, stateless and migrant women and girls, women and girls with disabilities, women and girls in remote areas, and women and girls who are victims of violence.

41. Recalling its previous concluding observations (CEDAW/C/ARE/CO/1, para. 33, and CEDAW/C/ARE/CO/2-3, para. 36), the Committee recommends that the State party grant Emirati women the same rights as Emirati men to acquire, change and retain their nationality and to confer it on their children and foreign spouses. In this regard, the Committee recommends that the State party revise its legislation, withdraw its reservation to article 9 of the Convention, and ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and the Protocol of 1967 thereto, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961. The Committee also recommends that the State party regularize the situation of stateless women and girls and ensure their right to a nationality, repeal provisions that make the provision of birth certificates contingent on the production of a valid marriage certificate, and collect sex- and age-disaggregated data on the number of stateless persons in the State party.

43. The Committee recommends that the State party take specific measures to ensure that stateless and migrant girls have adequate access to education and educational support programmes on an equitable footing with Emirati nationals, including through considering the adoption and effective implementation of temporary special measures, in line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25, incorporating time-bound goals and quotas directed towards the achievement of de facto or substantive equality of migrant and stateless girls.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation Birth registration Gender International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/ARE/CO/4
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Kazakhstan

42. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue its efforts to identify and provide identity documents for persons of undetermined nationality and simplify the statelessness determination procedure; (b) Review and amend the Law on Citizenship, including its provisions on...

42. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Continue its efforts to identify and provide identity documents for persons of undetermined nationality and simplify the statelessness determination procedure;

(b) Review and amend the Law on Citizenship, including its provisions on deprivation of nationality, to ensure that its application does not result in statelessness;

(c) Fully implement its national action plan under the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2014–2024;

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

53. The Committee wishes to draw the attention of the State party to the particular importance of the recommendations contained in paragraphs 16 (freedom of expression), 22 (tensions among ethnic groups), 28 (Kazakh identity) and 42 (stateless persons) above and requests the State party to provide detailed information in its next periodic report on the concrete measures taken to implement those recommendations.

Lack of documents/Access to documentation Identification and determination procedures Loss/Deprivation International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/KAZ/CO/8-10
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Greece

21. While welcoming the adoption of Law No. 4554/2018 and Law No. 4332/2015, the Committee recalls Sustainable Development Goals target 16.9 and recommends that the State party: (a) Further facilitate access to birth registration procedures and identity documentation, and to correction of...

21. While welcoming the adoption of Law No. 4554/2018 and Law No. 4332/2015, the Committee recalls Sustainable Development Goals target 16.9 and recommends that the State party:

(a) Further facilitate access to birth registration procedures and identity documentation, and to correction of birth certificates for Roma children and children of migrant parents, free of charge; 

(...)

(c) Establish legal safeguards to prevent statelessness of children born to foreign parents and of children born to same-sex couples and facilitate their access to Greek citizenship;

(d) Establish statelessness determination procedures;

(e) Consider ratifying the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1997 European Convention on Nationality. 

Identification and determination procedures (Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Discrimination - Other International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/GRC/CO/4-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Cambodia

19. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal registration, including through the expansion of electronic registration systems throughout the State party, capacity-building...

19. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal registration, including through the expansion of electronic registration systems throughout the State party, capacity-building of officials on the use and management of electronic systems, introduction of mobile registration units in rural areas, and public awareness-raising on the importance of birth registrations;

(b) Prohibit the practice of informal fees for the issuance of birth certificates;

(c) Ensure that all children, including Khmer Krom, ethnic Vietnamese and migrant children, have access to birth registration and identity documents;

(d) Develop a procedure to determine statelessness in order to properly identify and protect stateless children;

(e) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Identification and determination procedures Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/KHM/CO/4-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Cambodia

19. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal registration, including through the expansion of electronic registration systems throughout the State party, capacity-building...

19. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal registration, including through the expansion of electronic registration systems throughout the State party, capacity-building of officials on the use and management of electronic systems, introduction of mobile registration units in rural areas, and public awareness-raising on the importance of birth registrations;

(b) Prohibit the practice of informal fees for the issuance of birth certificates;

(c) Ensure that all children, including Khmer Krom, ethnic Vietnamese and migrant children, have access to birth registration and identity documents;

(d) Develop a procedure to determine statelessness in order to properly identify and protect stateless children;

(e) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

44. Noting with deep concern the discrimination faced by children belonging to minority or indigenous groups, which places them in particularly vulnerable situations, the Committee recommends that the State party combat discrimination faced by children belonging to minority or indigenous groups, including children of Vietnamese origin and Khmer Krom children, and ensure their full and equal access to birth registration and identity documents, health care, adequate housing, education and all other services.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/KHM/CO/4-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Zambia

21. (...) Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen and speed up the roll-out of the Integrated National Registration and Information System and consider linking it with the SmartCare information management...

21. (...) Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen and speed up the roll-out of the Integrated National Registration and Information System and consider linking it with the SmartCare information management system at the Ministry of Health;

(b) Ensure that health facility birth registration desks are widely available throughout the country and are always stocked with birth notification forms, and consider digitalizing the birth notification system at the health facility level to ensure a single procedure of birth notification for health and civil notification purposes;

(c) Ensure sustainable financing for birth registration to render it less reliant on donor funding; 

(d) Revise the law to prevent and respond to statelessness and consider ratifying the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/ZMB/CO/5-7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Cyprus

21. Taking note target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Establish legal safeguards, including legislation and procedures, including removal of fees for birth registration, to prevent statelessness; (b) Facilitate the acquisition...

21. Taking note target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Establish legal safeguards, including legislation and procedures, including removal of fees for birth registration, to prevent statelessness;

(b) Facilitate the acquisition of nationality for children who would otherwise be stateless, regardless of their parents’ citizenship, residence, legal or marital status, with particular attention given to children born to refugee, asylum-seeking, migrant or stateless parents, and regardless of the existence of the family link before the departure from the country of origin;

(c) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the European Convention on Nationality.

(Forced) migration context Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/CYP/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Iceland

18. The Committee welcomes the amendments made to the Icelandic Nationality Act in 2018, but is concerned that children born in the State party to parents with an irregular residence status are registered as domiciled overseas, which negatively affects their access to health and other...

18. The Committee welcomes the amendments made to the Icelandic Nationality Act in 2018, but is concerned that children born in the State party to parents with an irregular residence status are registered as domiciled overseas, which negatively affects their access to health and other services. It recommends that the State party ensure that children of parents with an irregular residence status have access to health and other services and receive protection against deportation under article 102 of the Foreign Nationals Act, and strengthen legal pathways for such children to acquire a nationality.

Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CRC/C/ISL/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Djibouti

20. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and recalling its previous recommendations, 8 the Committee urges the State party to simplify and standardize the birth registration process and make it free of charge in all situation and accessible, and ensure the issuance...

20. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and recalling its previous recommendations, 8 the Committee urges the State party to simplify and standardize the birth registration process and make it free of charge in all situation and accessible, and ensure the issuance of birth certificates for all children born in its territory, in particular in rural areas, and for nomad children, children in street situations, refugee and migrant children.

40. The Committee welcomes the legislative and policy measures taken to protect the rights of asylum-seeking and refugee children. In the light of joint general comments No. 3 and No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families/No. 22 and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017) on the human rights of children in the context of international migration, and its general comment No. 6 (2005) on treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(...)

(e) Continue to issue a birth certificate to every newborn refugee or migrant child to protect them and prevent statelessness;

(f) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/DJI/CO/3-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Canada

23. While noting the disproportionate barriers to access to birth registration for children of indigenous communities, the Committee takes note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and urges the State party to: (a) Ensure the issuance of birth certificates for all children...

23. While noting the disproportionate barriers to access to birth registration for children of indigenous communities, the Committee takes note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and urges the State party to:

(a) Ensure the issuance of birth certificates for all children born in its territory, in particular indigenous children, immediately after the birth;

(b) Amend the Citizenship Act to include a definition of stateless person in accordance with international law and consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/CAN/CO/5-6