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Number of results found: 2459

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Romania

109.250 Establish a clear and predictable statelessness determination procedure that guarantees basic procedural rights and safeguards. 

109.250 Establish a clear and predictable statelessness determination procedure that guarantees basic procedural rights and safeguards. 

Recommending State: Ukraine

Recommendation Accepted

Identification and determination procedures
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Botswana

137.50 Consider ratifying the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and withdrawing the reservation to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. 

137.50 Consider ratifying the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and withdrawing the reservation to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. 

Recommending State: Chad

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Botswana

137.30 Ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

137.30 Ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Recommending State: Cote d'Ivoire

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Botswana

137.31 Explore the possibility of ratifying the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

137.31 Explore the possibility of ratifying the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Recommending State: Niger

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Sao Tome and Principe

17. Noting that children in vulnerable situations are subjected to discrimination that persists throughout their life course and that perpetuates high rates of poverty, illiteracy, adolescent pregnancy and violence, the Committee, recalling target 10.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals,...

17. Noting that children in vulnerable situations are subjected to discrimination that persists throughout their life course and that perpetuates high rates of poverty, illiteracy, adolescent pregnancy and violence, the Committee, recalling target 10.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, recommends that the State party take all measures, including policy, legislative and awareness-raising measures, necessary to prevent and combat discrimination against children from economically disadvantaged families, girls, children with disabilities, children from rural and remote areas and other children in vulnerable situations and ensure access for such children to birth registration and high quality health care, education and all basic social services, transport, clean water and sanitation, with particular attention given to Principe island.

23. The Committee, recalling target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Committee’s previous recommendations,8 urges the State party:

(a) To ensure and promote universal and free birth registration, with particular attention given to the poorest families, rural and remote areas and children born to unmarried parents and in unattended births;

(b) To ensure that birth registration, which can be done by either of the child’s parents, includes the parents’ full details and that the marital status of the parents is not an impediment to registration;

(c) To ensure that a birth certificate is provided free of charge for every registered birth and that children who do not hold a birth certificate can gain access to education and all other necessary social services;

(d) To abolish fees for late birth registration and review the legislation, including decree No. 31/GM-MJDH/2018 accordingly;

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

Birth registration International Instruments
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Barbados

114.50 Take steps to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and take all steps necessary to implement it. 

114.50 Take steps to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and take all steps necessary to implement it. 

Recommending State: Mozambique

International Instruments
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Barbados

114.96 Repeal or amend all discriminatory provisions in legislation, including by providing equal rights in conferring nationality to an adopted child or foreign spouse. 

114.96 Repeal or amend all discriminatory provisions in legislation, including by providing equal rights in conferring nationality to an adopted child or foreign spouse. 

Recommending State: Latvia

Adoption/Surrogacy Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Barbados

114.94 Amend the nationality laws to ensure women confer nationality on their children in all circumstances. 

114.94 Amend the nationality laws to ensure women confer nationality on their children in all circumstances. 

Recommending State: Iceland

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Barbados

114.95 Amend relevant laws to ensure all parents can confer nationality on their children, including instances where children are born abroad.

114.95 Amend relevant laws to ensure all parents can confer nationality on their children, including instances where children are born abroad.

Recommending State: Ireland

Born abroad Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

United Kingdom

24. The Committee is deeply concerned that children and their families can be deprived of their nationality without notice under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, which also retroactively validated deprivation decisions already made but found unlawful by courts. The Committee urges the...

24. The Committee is deeply concerned that children and their families can be deprived of their nationality without notice under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, which also retroactively validated deprivation decisions already made but found unlawful by courts. The Committee urges the State party:

(a) To remove legal and administrative barriers and strengthen legal pathways for all children, including children without a regular residence status, children born in the overseas territories and children in care, to acquire residence status and nationality, including by simplifying procedures and waiving the high fees for all children in need;

(b) To amend the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 to ensure that the best interests of the child are the primary consideration in all proceedings relating to the deprivation of nationality, that the act is not applied to any children who would be put at risk of statelessness or would otherwise be stateless and that citizens are not deprived of their citizenship as a result of actions that they allegedly committed as children.

50. With reference to 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, the Committee urges the State party:

(a) To urgently amend the Illegal Migration Bill to repeal all draft provisions that would have the effect of violating children’s rights under the Convention and the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and bring the Bill in line with the State party’s obligations under international human rights law to ensure children’s rights to nationality, to seek asylum and to have their best interests taken as a primary consideration and to prevent their prolonged detention and removal;

51. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(c) Implement long-term solutions for the regularization of children without a regular residence status, including by ensuring that all such children in the overseas territories are issued identity documents, and strengthen measures to prevent the social exclusion of such children.

Loss/Deprivation (Forced) migration context Access to nationality/Naturalization Nationality/Identity documentation Born abroad Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action