20. While noting the high rate of birth registration reported by the State party, the Committee draws the attention to target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing a legal identity for all, including birth registration, and recommends that the State party:
(a) Strengthen efforts to provide all children with a legal identity through birth registration, including Kazakh children, those who migrate within the territory of the State party and those who were born at home or without midwife support;
(b) Take all necessary measures to grant Mongolian citizenship to all children residing in the State party who would otherwise be stateless, particularly Kazakh children who have returned to Mongolia;
(c) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961 and bring its legislation in line with these international instruments.
(Forced) migration context
Birth registration
International Instruments