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Number of results found: 35

Voluntary Pledges

Panama

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness Ensure that no child is born stateless and ensure birth registration to prevent statelessness. The Electoral Tribunal, through the National Directorate of the Civil Registry and the National Identification Directorate, will continue with the...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

Ensure that no child is born stateless and ensure birth registration to prevent statelessness. The Electoral Tribunal, through the National Directorate of the Civil Registry and the National Identification Directorate, will continue with the development and execution of the program "timely registration of births as a mechanism to guarantee identity, nationality, and identification, thereby preventing the risk of Statelessness." It will also continue with the binational identity days, with their counterparts from the Republic of Costa Rica and the Republic of Colombia. (Year of Completion 2020)

The Republic of Panama will establish an Interinstitutional Commission that will facilitate the implementation of Executive Decree NO. 10 of January 16, 2019, which regulates Law 28 of March 30, 2011, which approves the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954, and establishes a procedure for determining statelessness within the administrative structure. (Y.o.C. 2020)

The Republic of Panama will develop a training, awareness and dissemination program for officials competent in this area, developing efforts jointly with ministries and entities that have contact with the population mainly in border areas, areas of difficult access and urban areas, including population in general in relation to the Convention and Executive Degree 10 of 2019, with the objective that they can determine a possible case of a person at risk of statelessness. It is expected to have quantitative and qualitative data procedure of the stateless population in the Republic of Panama. (Y.o.C. 2021)

Identification and determination procedures Birth registration International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Voluntary Pledges

United States of America

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to engage in strong U.S. diplomacy to advocate for the prevention and reduction of statelessness, and to provide U.S. humanitarian assistance to help protect stateless persons. [Year pf...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to engage in strong U.S. diplomacy to advocate for the prevention and reduction of statelessness, and to provide U.S. humanitarian assistance to help protect stateless persons. [Year pf Completion -]

The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to conduct an external evaluation of the efforts by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) to prevent and reduce statelessness. [Y.o.C. 2020]

The Government of the United States of America hereby commits to champion the goal of achieving nationality law reforms in the 25 countries that currently do not allow women to confer citizenship on their children on an equal basis with men.  [Y.o.C. -]

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Gender Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Tajikistan

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness (...) To complete the Civil Registration System reform in the country, securing safeguards for universal childbirth registration regardless of the legal status and possession of identity documents by parents. [Year of Completion 2020] The...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

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To complete the Civil Registration System reform in the country, securing safeguards for universal childbirth registration regardless of the legal status and possession of identity documents by parents. [Year of Completion 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan hereby commits to consider the issue of ratification of 1954 and 1961 Conventions. [Y.o.C. 2021]

The Government of the Republic of Tajikistan hereby commits within the National Census of the Population and the Housing Stock planned for 2020 to explore the scale of statelessness through identification of persons at risk of statelessness, stateless persons and persons with undetermined nationality. [Y.o.C. 2021]

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Voluntary Pledges

Turkmenistan

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness Resolve all identified cases of statelessness through granting citizenship, updating determination mechanisms of the legal status of statelessness persons and assistance in their naturalization, as well as reforms of the birth registration system,...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

Resolve all identified cases of statelessness through granting citizenship, updating determination mechanisms of the legal status of statelessness persons and assistance in their naturalization, as well as reforms of the birth registration system, improvement of data gathering on stateless persons as well as access to data. [Year of Completion -]

To achieve an eradication of the birth registration risk of children of undocumented people, as well as to overhaul the methodology on defining the status of stateless persons with consideration of covering the statelessness issue in the upcoming 2022 Population Census, through realization of the National Action Plan by state bodies with participation of international organizations and civil sector. [Y.o.C. -]

To update the registration of stateless persons, and thereby by undertaking a widespread registration campaign, to have a comprehensive statistical picture of the SDGs' implementation and ensure that all stateless persons have a fundamental right – right to citizenship. [Y.o.C. -]

Identification and determination procedures Remedy/Reparation Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Voluntary Pledges

Republic of the Congo

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness  Finalize the process of accession to the Convention of 28 September 1954 Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention of 30 August 1961 on the Reduction of Statelessness by end of 2019. The Government of the Republic of the Congo...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness 

Finalize the process of accession to the Convention of 28 September 1954 Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention of 30 August 1961 on the Reduction of Statelessness by end of 2019.

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Complete the legislative reform started on 30 May 2016 on the Persons and Family Law in order to eliminate all discriminatory provisions and other articles that may cause statelessness by 2021.

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Set up a national body for the status determination and protection of stateless persons. [Year of Completion 2022]

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Support the process of adoption, signature and ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Specific Aspects of the Right to Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa. [Y.o.C. 2022]

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Ensure that any person identified without a birth certificate in the national census for civil registry purpose shall obtain a birth certificate by 2019. Ensure that there is zero child in the Republic of the Congo without a birth certificate by 2022.

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Pursue awareness-raising activities among the population to encourage the registration of every birth. [Y.o.C. -]

The Government of the Republic of the Congo hereby commits to: Undertake a quantitative and qualitative study to gain a better understanding of the situation of groups and individuals living on its territory who are stateless or at risk of becoming stateless, with a view to have reliable data on these population and to find a solution to their situation. [Y.o.C. 2021]

 

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