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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Sierra Leone

16. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue its efforts to register all children, especially those in rural areas; (b) Ensure the...

16. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Continue its efforts to register all children, especially those in rural areas;

(b) Ensure the integration of birth registration into the general civil registration reform programme. 

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/SLE/CO/3-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Nauru

53. The Committee urges the State party to immediately: (g) Consider acceding to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

53. The Committee urges the State party to immediately:

(g) Consider acceding to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/NRU/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

South Africa

24. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Place strong focus on the eradication of structural inequality and discrimination in all legislative, policy and programmatic measures to advance the rights of the child, paying particular attention to children living with HIV/AIDS,...

24. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Place strong focus on the eradication of structural inequality and discrimination in all legislative, policy and programmatic measures to advance the rights of the child, paying particular attention to children living with HIV/AIDS, children with disabilities, indigenous children, stateless children, migrant, asylum- seeking and refugee children, children in street situations, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children and children with albinism, and to the accumulative impact of multiple discrimination;

32. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee strongly recommends that the State party:

(a) Review and amend all legislation and regulations relevant to birth registration and nationality to ensure their full conformity with the Convention, including through the removal of requirements that may have punitive or discriminatory impacts on certain groups of children;

(b) Put in place regulations to grant nationality to all children under the jurisdiction of the State party who are stateless or are at risk of being stateless;

(c) Carry out regular monitoring and ensure that measures adopted in such legislation, regulations and guidelines guarantee the birth registration of all children in the State party, including non-nationals;

(d) Systematically identify all undocumented children currently residing in child and youth care centres in all parts of the State party and ensure their access to a birth certificate and a nationality;

(e) Ensure that a lack of birth registration does not hinder access to child protection services and basic social services, while enhancing its efforts for universal birth registration;

(f) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, of 1954, and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, of 1961;

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

 

62. With reference to its general comment No. 6 (2005) on treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin and to the conclusion of the day of general discussion held in 2012 on the rights of all children in the context of international migration, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(b) Expedite the development and implementation of a protocol to streamline the delivery of timely child-protection services to migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children, including services for

(i) registration and issuance of identity documents;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation Nationality/Identity documentation Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Implementing measures - Other
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/ZAF/CO/2*
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Philippines

36. The Committee recommends that the State party take all steps necessary to ensure that all children, including indigenous children, Muslim children and children of overseas Filipino workers, are registered, including through the implementation of Presidential Proclamation No. 1106 of 2015...

36. The Committee recommends that the State party take all steps necessary to ensure that all children, including indigenous children, Muslim children and children of overseas Filipino workers, are registered, including through the implementation of Presidential Proclamation No. 1106 of 2015 and through diplomatic relations with countries of destination of overseas Filipino workers.

Birth registration
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Doc. E/C.12/PHL/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Saudi Arabia

23. While noting the information provided by the State party on the amendments to articles 7 and 12 of the Citizenship Act aimed at naturalizing the children of Saudi women married to non-Saudis and on the issuance in January 2012 of the implementing regulations, the Committee reiterates its...

23. While noting the information provided by the State party on the amendments to articles 7 and 12 of the Citizenship Act aimed at naturalizing the children of Saudi women married to non-Saudis and on the issuance in January 2012 of the implementing regulations, the Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party review its legislation on nationality in order to ensure that nationality can be transmitted to children through both the maternal and paternal line without distinction (see CRC/C/SAU/CO/2, para. 39), in particular for those children who would otherwise be stateless. The Committee also recommends that the State party consider acceding to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and initiate without delay a process together with international partners, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to assess the number of stateless children and their families and address their status through a naturalization process.

Remedy/Reparation Gender International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/SAU/CO/3-4
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Lebanon

28. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Review all laws and regulations with a view to repealing or amending those that are discriminatory or have a discriminatory effect on women, including laws on nationality and inheritance;

28. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Review all laws and regulations with a view to repealing or amending those that are discriminatory or have a discriminatory effect on women, including laws on nationality and inheritance;

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. E/C.12/LBN/CO/2
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Dominican Republic

21. The Committee finds it regrettable that the State party has not acted upon its previous recommendation on this subject (E/C.12/DOM/CO/3, para. 11) and remains concerned over the continued discrimination faced by Haitians and persons of Haitian descent in the State party. Moreover, the...

21. The Committee finds it regrettable that the State party has not acted upon its previous recommendation on this subject (E/C.12/DOM/CO/3, para. 11) and remains concerned over the continued discrimination faced by Haitians and persons of Haitian descent in the State party. Moreover, the Committee finds it regrettable that, pursuant to Constitutional Court ruling TC/0168/13, persons of Haitian descent who were born in the State party and have lived there for decades have retroactively been deprived of their nationality. While noting the adoption of Act No. 169/14, which establishes a regime for the regularization and naturalization of the persons affected by the ruling, the Committee is concerned that a significant number of persons of Haitian descent are stateless, which limits their effective exercise of their economic, social and cultural rights (art. 2).

22. In the light of its previous recommendation on the subject (E/C.12/DOM/CO/3, para. 11), the Committee urges the State party to:

(a) Adopt all necessary legislative and administrative measures to combat all forms of discrimination that cause or perpetuate formal or de facto discrimination against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent;

(b) Adopt such measures as may be necessary to ensure that ruling TC/0168/13 ceases to have any legal effect and ceases to result in the deprivation of persons of Haitian descent of their economic, social and cultural rights and, to that end, consider amending the constitutional provisions that provided the basis for that ruling;

(c) Ensure the restoration of nationality to all individuals to whom the ruling applies and eliminate excessive procedures and requirements for the recovery of nationality;

(d) Adopt the necessary measures to prevent and reduce statelessness and consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

 

47. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to ensure that everyone has access to an efficient and free birth registration process through which all children who do not have a birth certificate may obtain one. In addition, the Committee urges the State party to eliminate all legal provisions and administrative practices that prevent children of Haitian descent from obtaining a birth certificate.

65. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(c) Redouble its efforts to guarantee access to all levels of education for all children and adolescents, in particular Haitian children, children of Haitian descent and children who do not possess a birth certificate or identity document;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation Loss/Deprivation Birth registration Race/Ethnicity International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. E/C.12/DOM/CO/4
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Niger

37. The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and issued with personal identity documents in line with target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and that it raise awareness about the...

37. The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and issued with personal identity documents in line with target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals and that it raise awareness about the importance of birth registration among migrant workers and members of their families, especially those in an irregular situation.
 

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CMW/C/NER/CO/1
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Sri Lanka

20. While welcoming the establishment in 2015 of the Ministry of Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development and its establishment of a five-year national plan of action for the period 2016-2020 on social development of the plantation community, the Committee notes...

20. While welcoming the establishment in 2015 of the Ministry of Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development and its establishment of a five-year national plan of action for the period 2016-2020 on social development of the plantation community, the Committee notes that Tamils of Indian origin, also referred to as “Plantation Tamils” continue to face the following challenges:

(...)

(d) Difficulty in obtaining citizenship papers or identity documents, leading to problems with owning housing, opening bank accounts and avoiding detention;

(...)

21. The Committee refers the State party to its general recommendation No. 32 (2009) on the meaning and scope of special measures and requests the State party to take the above-mentioned concerns into consideration in the development of special measures for the plantation community, and ensure that the affected community is consulted in the development and implementation of plans on matters that concern them. The Committee requests the State party to provide in its next periodic report detailed qualitative and quantitative information on the impact of special measures on improving the livelihood and social and economic rights of Tamils of Indian origin.

Nationality/Identity documentation
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Doc. CERD/C/LKA/CO/10-17
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Lebanon

22. The Committee recommends that the State party review its nationality policy so that it is in line with international law; in particular, that it amend Decision No. 15 of 19 January 1925 on nationality and that it review the administrative procedures related to its implementation; and...

22. The Committee recommends that the State party review its nationality policy so that it is in line with international law; in particular, that it amend Decision No. 15 of 19 January 1925 on nationality and that it review the administrative procedures related to its implementation; and that it grant Lebanese women the right to pass on their citizenship to their children, irrespective of the nationality of their spouse.

23. The Committee notes with concern that, under the 1951 Registration of Personal Status Law, birth registration after the age of 1 year involves a lengthy and expensive judicial procedure. It is also concerned that children born to unregistered stateless fathers are not entitled to Lebanese birth registration. Moreover, it notes with concern that the majority of Syrian children born in the State party and children born to undocumented migrants in the State party do not have an official birth certificate owing to onerous requirements for obtaining identity documentation and proof of legal residency (arts. 2 and 5).

24. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that birth registration is accessible to all children born in the State party, including by removing financial, procedural and regulatory obstacles, such as those contained in the 1951 Registration of Personal Status Law.

 

Birth registration Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. C/LBN/CO/18-22