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Voluntary Pledges

Thailand

UPR 39th Session 54. (e) Enhance cooperation to end statelessness and promote the human rights of stateless persons particularly in the areas of education, social protection, and access to birth registration and granting of nationality and civil rights.

UPR 39th Session

54. (e) Enhance cooperation to end statelessness and promote the human rights of stateless persons particularly in the areas of education, social protection, and access to birth registration and granting of nationality and civil rights.

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Voluntary Pledges

Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness By 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina commits to develop dedicated statelessness determination procedure and provide stateless persons rights in accordance with international conventions (the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons). ...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

By 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina commits to develop dedicated statelessness determination procedure and provide stateless persons rights in accordance with international conventions (the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons). [Year of Completion 2022]

By 2023, Bosnia and Herzegovina commits to improve birth registration of all children regardless of their status or status of their parents or lack of identity documents through changes to the legislation on civil registration and through improvement of birth registration practice. These actions will facilitate registration of children born abroad by BiH parents and registration of children born in BiH by undocumented parents (asylum seekers and migrants). [Y.o.C. 2023]

By 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina commits to ensure issuance of nationality documents to persons who are entitled to nationality under law but cannot acquire documentary proof are enabled to do so. Furthermore, Bosnia and Herzegovina commits to create mechanism for regulating status of persons in situation of displacement who stay in BiH for a long time (citizens of former SFRY) and who never registered residence. [Y.o.C. 2022]

By the end of 2020, Bosnia and Herzegovina will develop a state action plan for ending statelessness by 2024 in cooperation with all relevant stakeholders at state, entity, Brcko District, cantonal and municipal/city levels. [Y.o.C. 2020]

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Remedy/Reparation Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Armenia

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To review the national legislation on Nationalities (“Citizenship”) to establish legal grounds for decreasing the number of stateless persons and ensure proper mechanisms for guaranteeing the...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To review the national legislation on Nationalities (“Citizenship”) to establish legal grounds for decreasing the number of stateless persons and ensure proper mechanisms for guaranteeing the exercise of their rights. [Year of Completion: 2024]

The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To conduct a comprehensive study on the status of stateless persons in order to reveal the gaps in the sphere, to map issues and to make suggestions on addressing the main challenges of the field. [Y.o.C. 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To further amend the provisions of the national legislation on Nationalities (“Citizenship”) that may cause statelessness (i.e. pursuing the legislative initiative to amend the citizenship law for putting safeguards during renunciation process). [Y.o.C. 2020]

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Germany

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government hereby commits: Germany will examine its reservations towards the Convention on Statelessness from 1961 which were made upon ratification and start a review process within our line ministries to evaluate the necessity of those...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government hereby commits: Germany will examine its reservations towards the Convention on Statelessness from 1961 which were made upon ratification and start a review process within our line ministries to evaluate the necessity of those reservations. [Year of Completion 2019]

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Albania

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness  By 2020, the Republic of Albania commits to establish by law, and implement, a dedicated statelessness determination procedure, which includes basic procedural safeguards, and the rights and obligations (legal status) of stateless persons in line...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness 

By 2020, the Republic of Albania commits to establish by law, and implement, a dedicated statelessness determination procedure, which includes basic procedural safeguards, and the rights and obligations (legal status) of stateless persons in line with the provisions of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

By 2021, the Republic of Albania commits to fully implement the 2018 legislative amendments that improve access to birth registration procedures for children of Roma and Egyptian communities, and for children born outside the territory of the Republic of Albania whose parents are nationals of the Republic of Albania.

By 2019, the Republic of Albania commits to align its Law on Citizenship with, and effectively reduce the risk of statelessness in accordance with, the key provisions of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons as regards the naturalisation of stateless persons.

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Azerbaijan

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan hereby commits to carry out measures in order to ensure naturalization of 545 stateless persons permanently residing in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan within the next 3 years. [Year of...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan hereby commits to carry out measures in order to ensure naturalization of 545 stateless persons permanently residing in the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan within the next 3 years. [Year of Completion 2022]

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Belarus

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to implement a project aiming at providing assistance to vulnerable categories of stateless persons willing to acquire the citizenship of the Republic of Belarus and regularize their status in...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to implement a project aiming at providing assistance to vulnerable categories of stateless persons willing to acquire the citizenship of the Republic of Belarus and regularize their status in the territory of Belarus. [Year of Completion 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on Reduction of Statelessness after finalizing all relevant internal proceedings. [Y.o.C. 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to include a statelessness-related question into the 2019 census of the population of the Republic of Belarus. [Y.o.C. 2020]

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Bulgaria

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to initiate the procedure under national law to withdraw the reservation imposed by the Republic of Bulgaria with regard to Article 31 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to initiate the procedure under national law to withdraw the reservation imposed by the Republic of Bulgaria with regard to Article 31 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. [Year of Completion 2021]

The Government of Bulgaria hereby commits to a regular review of the relevance of the reservations imposed by Bulgaria in 2011 to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. [Year of Completion 2022]

The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to take action to improve the procedure to grant statelessness status and to consider the necessity of introducing a quality assessment mechanism for this procedure. [Year of Completion 2023]

The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to include stateless persons among persons subject to the National census 2021. [Year of Completion 2021]

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Denmark

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness Denmark recognizes the overall importance of the statelessness conventions and pledges to continue its efforts for the general avoidance of statelessness. [Year of Completion -] Denmark will work to improve cooperation between relevant authorities...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

Denmark recognizes the overall importance of the statelessness conventions and pledges to continue its efforts for the general avoidance of statelessness. [Year of Completion -]

Denmark will work to improve cooperation between relevant authorities regarding the identification of stateless persons. [Y.o.C. 2021]

 

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Voluntary Pledges

Georgia

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of Georgia hereby commits to facilitate naturalization for stateless persons by introducing legislative amendment to the law on Citizenship of Georgia aimed at reducing the 10-year residence period required for naturalization in half....

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of Georgia hereby commits to facilitate naturalization for stateless persons by introducing legislative amendment to the law on Citizenship of Georgia aimed at reducing the 10-year residence period required for naturalization in half.

The Government of Georgia hereby commits: The fee for statelessness determination procedures will be reduced in half in order to increase accessibility of the status determination procedure.

The Government of Georgia hereby commits: Georgia will include the stateless status applicants in the emergency outpatient and emergency inpatient care of the State universal healthcare program.

The Government of Georgia hereby commits: Stateless status applicants will enjoy the right to State free legal aid. To this end, applicants will receive both legal counselling and representation to the administrative bodies and courts by the state funded Legal Aid Service.

The Government of Georgia hereby commits: The “door –to-door” campaign to identify and document stateless persons will be undertaken.

The Government of Georgia hereby commits to work with UNHCR to raise awareness and foster common understanding about statelessness in an inclusive manner.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Remedy/Reparation Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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