ISI Database on Statelessness and
Human Rights

Connecting nationality, statelessness and human rights. Explore and compare information from the international human rights monitoring systems to promote a human rights-based approach to nationality and statelessness.

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Number of results found: 2282

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

34. (...) It urges the State party to take all necessary measures to ensure that all children, including children born out of wedlock, are properly registered at birth. 63. (...) The Committee also calls upon the State party to take the necessary measures to ensure that returnee, refugee...

34. (...) It urges the State party to take all necessary measures to ensure that all children, including children born out of wedlock, are properly registered at birth.

63. (...) The Committee also calls upon the State party to take the necessary measures to ensure that returnee, refugee and internally displaced children are not denied access to education and identity documents, and are not discriminated in any other way on the basis of their ethnicity. The Committee encourages the State party to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

15. (...) It also recommends that the State party allocate sufficient resources for programmes targeting the Roma community, for example, to solve the problems of their identity cards and statelessness and to involve Roma representatives and civil society organizations in the implementation...

15. (...) It also recommends that the State party allocate sufficient resources for programmes targeting the Roma community, for example, to solve the problems of their identity cards and statelessness and to involve Roma representatives and civil society organizations in the implementation of these programmes. (...)

19. (...) The Committee requests information on measures and actions taken by the State party to reduce statelessness bearing in mind its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens. The Committee draws the attention of the State party to its obligations under the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons which it acceded to on 7 February 2000.

Remedy/Reparation Nationality/Identity documentation Race/Ethnicity International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

80.4. Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

80.4. Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

80.17. Grant citizenship to all those who live on a permanent basis in the territory of Estonia and wish to become a citizen, grant, as a mater of urgency, the right to citizenship to all children born in Estonia of so-called non-citizens, without exception, lift the prohibition on access of...

80.17. Grant citizenship to all those who live on a permanent basis in the territory of Estonia and wish to become a citizen, grant, as a mater of urgency, the right to citizenship to all children born in Estonia of so-called non-citizens, without exception, lift the prohibition on access of membership in political parties to so-called non-citizens who have permanent residency in the country and are citizens of countries which are not members of the European Union, as well as provide non-citizens the passive right to vote in municipal elections.

Recommending State: Russia

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Access to nationality/Naturalization Born on territory

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

77.85. Resolve the problem of persons without citizenship, and prevent such cases from arising in the future.

77.85. Resolve the problem of persons without citizenship, and prevent such cases from arising in the future.

Recommending State: Ecuador

Recommendation Accepted

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

89.66. Undertake measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth, as a crucial step for children to benefit formally from the social protection system.

89.66. Undertake measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth, as a crucial step for children to benefit formally from the social protection system.

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

90.6. Ratify OP-ICESCR, the Rome Statute of the ICC as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

90.6. Ratify OP-ICESCR, the Rome Statute of the ICC as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

76.2 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

76.2 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

106.13. Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties, such as ICCPR, CERD and CAT as well as the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

106.13. Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties, such as ICCPR, CERD and CAT as well as the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Hungary

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

107.10. Adapt the Citizenship Act of 1982 in order to put an end to the statelessness of the Rohingya population.

107.10. Adapt the Citizenship Act of 1982 in order to put an end to the statelessness of the Rohingya population.

Recommending State: Belgium

Recommendation Noted

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