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Number of results found: 35

Voluntary Pledges

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hereby commits to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. [Year of Completion 2019] The Government...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hereby commits to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. [Year of Completion 2019]

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hereby commits to reform the system of civil registry and production of statistics on vital events, take initiatives such as identifying cases of statelessness and persons at risk of statelessness, institutionalize the collection of data on stateless persons and persons at risk, and prevent statelessness through the establishment of national mechanisms, including civil registration/ issuance of national identity documents. [Y.o.C. 2024]

The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hereby commits to bring its legal framework in line with the provisions of the abovementioned statelessness conventions and ensure compliance with the international standards and principles on nationality and the prevention of statelessness. [Y.o.C. 2021]

Identification and determination procedures Nationality/Identity documentation International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Cote d'Ivoire

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby undertakes to adopt its National Action Plan for the Eradication of Statelessness to provide a more formal and structured implementing framework to the commitments. [Year of Completion 2019] ...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby undertakes to adopt its National Action Plan for the Eradication of Statelessness to provide a more formal and structured implementing framework to the commitments. [Year of Completion 2019]

The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to introduce into its nationality law a provision providing for the conferral of Ivorian nationality to children from unknown parents, stateless parents, who are born or found on its territory who would otherwise be stateless. [Y.o.C. 2022]

The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to reform the provision of the nationality law providing that a woman, unlike a man, may only confer her nationality to her children if she is unmarried, divorced or widowed. [Y.o.C. 2021]

The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to repeal the provision of its Nationality Law providing that the deprivation of the Ivorian nationality to a man may be extended to his spouse and minor children, regardless of their own responsibility for the commission of the offence punished. [Y.o.C. 2021]

The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to validate the existing qualitative and quantitative studies with a view to deepening them in order to accurately identify the number of confirmed stateless persons and persons in the process of becoming stateless, living on its territory, with a view to understanding their situation and finding a definitive solution to their problem. [Y.o.C. 2020]

Loss/Deprivation Born on territory Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Gender Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Eswatini

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini hereby commits to undertake and publish a qualitative and quantitative study by 2021 to better understand the situation of groups and individuals who are stateless or at risk of statelessness in the...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini hereby commits to undertake and publish a qualitative and quantitative study by 2021 to better understand the situation of groups and individuals who are stateless or at risk of statelessness in the territory with a view to finding a solution to their situation. 

The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini hereby commits to establish by 2022 a procedure to determine the status of stateless migrants in line with the 1954 Convention. 

The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini hereby commits to undertake national consultations on gender equality in nationality laws and initiating the necessary reforms to uphold citizens' equal ability to confer nationality on spouses and children by end of 2024. 

The Government of the Kingdom of Eswatini hereby commits to introducing a provision in our nationality law to grant nationality to all children of unknown origin found in our territory and those born in our territory who would otherwise be stateless by 2024. 

Identification and determination procedures Born on territory Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Gender Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Gambia

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness By the year 2022, the Gambia commits to introduce a safeguard in its nationality law to grant nationality to children born on the territory including foundlings who would otherwise be stateless. Consider legal reform regarding the nationality and...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

By the year 2022, the Gambia commits to introduce a safeguard in its nationality law to grant nationality to children born on the territory including foundlings who would otherwise be stateless.

Consider legal reform regarding the nationality and citizenship provisions in the 1997 Constitution to facilitate naturalisation of refugees and stateless persons by 2020.

To include late birth registration into all health facilities, including outreach to Reproductive and Child Health Services across the country, by the end of 2020.

By the end of 2021, the Gambia commits to undertake and publish a qualitative study to better understand the situation of statelessness groups and individuals living in its territory with a view to finding a solution to their situation.

Remedy/Reparation Access to nationality/Naturalization Born on territory Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Ghana

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of Ghana hereby commits to accede to the two Statelessness Conventions by the end of 2021. The Government of Ghana hereby commits: To support efforts of UNHCR and UNFPA in identifying groups at risk of Statelessness in Ghana.

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of Ghana hereby commits to accede to the two Statelessness Conventions by the end of 2021.

The Government of Ghana hereby commits: To support efforts of UNHCR and UNFPA in identifying groups at risk of Statelessness in Ghana.

International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Voluntary Pledges

Lesotho

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of Kingdom of Lesotho hereby commits to adopt by 2020 the bill on nationality that grants nationality to children of unknown origin found on its territory, and provides for a safeguard to grant nationality to children born on its...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of Kingdom of Lesotho hereby commits to adopt by 2020 the bill on nationality that grants nationality to children of unknown origin found on its territory, and provides for a safeguard to grant nationality to children born on its territory who would otherwise be stateless.

The Government of the Kingdom Lesotho hereby commits to undertake by 2020 a study publishing a qualitative study to better understand the situation of groups and individuals, who are stateless or at the risk of being stateless, staying in her territory.

Born on territory Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Liberia

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of Liberia hereby commits to work with key parliamentary members for the passage of the amended Aliens and Nationality Law to address issues of gender discrimination in Liberia. The current Aliens and Nationality Law of Liberia (ANL)...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of Liberia hereby commits to work with key parliamentary members for the passage of the amended Aliens and Nationality Law to address issues of gender discrimination in Liberia. The current Aliens and Nationality Law of Liberia (ANL) discriminates against Liberian women who have children with foreign nationals from passing on their nationality automatically to their children like their male counterparts. This section 20 of the ANL has to be aligned with the Liberian Constitution (Article 28); to review the Aliens and Nationality Law to ensure protection against denial of nationality on discriminatory grounds, such as disability or medical reasons. [Year of Completion 2020]

The Government of Liberia hereby commits to work with the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) and UNFPA on inclusion of questions of statelessness in the 2020 census questionnaire. [Y.o.C. 2019]

Adoption of the National Action Plan: The Government of Liberia is a signatory to the two Statelessness Conventions but has not domesticated the Conventions. In 2015, the LRRRC and UNHCR jointly organised key stakeholders (including Government and civil society & NGO and UN actors) to draft a National Action Plan which is pending endorsement by the Cabinet to form the basis for government and UNHCR’s intervention on statelessness issues. [Y.o.C. 2021]

Gender Disability International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Malawi

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Malawi hereby commits: To accede to the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and also on the adoption of the Ministerial Declaration following a completion of a consultation exercise with relevant...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Malawi hereby commits: To accede to the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and also on the adoption of the Ministerial Declaration following a completion of a consultation exercise with relevant stakeholders. [Year of Completion -]

The Government of the Republic of Malawi hereby commits: To undertake and publish a qualitative study by June 2020 to better understand the situation of groups and individuals staying on its territory, who are stateless or at risk of statelessness, with a view to finding a solution to their situation. [Y.o.C. 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Malawi hereby commits: Establish a procedure to determine the status of stateless migrants in line with the 1954 convention. [Y.o.C. 2022]

The Government of the Republic of Malawi hereby commits: Commits to review Nationality/Citizenship Law, and, within this process to consider the introduction of a provision to grant nationality to children of unknown origin found in their territory who would otherwise be stateless, and will put a safeguard in the law to grant nationality to children born on the territory who would otherwise be stateless. [Y.o.C. 2022]

 

 

Identification and determination procedures Born on territory Foundlings/Unaccompanied children International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Mali

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of Mali hereby commits to enable late birth registration for children. (Linked to Action 7 of the of the Global Plan of Action). [Year of Completion 2024] The Government of Mali hereby commits to carry out legal reforms to ensure...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of Mali hereby commits to enable late birth registration for children. (Linked to Action 7 of the of the Global Plan of Action). [Year of Completion 2024]

The Government of Mali hereby commits to carry out legal reforms to ensure that no child is born stateless in Mali, in accordance with Action [2] of the Global Action Plan. This commitment includes the drafting and publication of a decree implementing the 2011 Nationality Code, as well as the amendment of the relevant provisions of the Law No. 11-080/AN-RM of 2 December 2011 (Title V on Nationality). [Y.o.C. 2024]

The Government of Mali hereby commits to establish a determination statelessness procedure in accordance with relevant international standards and in line with action [6] of the Global Action Plans. This commitment includes the setting up of Statelessness Determination Procedures. [Y.o.C. 2021]

The Government of Mali hereby commits to improving quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations in Mali. This commitment involves the inclusion of questions to provide clarifications about the risk of statelessness in the next general population census scheduled for 2020 and in subsequent similar exercises. This commitment includes the finalization and publication of the results of the qualitative study on statelessness in Mali, validated in May 2019. [Y.o.C. 2024]

 

Identification and determination procedures Born on territory Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Mozambique

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness Conduct a study on statelessness in the country by 2022 to identify aspects that can be improved in preventing, combating and eliminating statelessness.

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

Conduct a study on statelessness in the country by 2022 to identify aspects that can be improved in preventing, combating and eliminating statelessness.

Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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