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Number of results found: 2530

Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Djibouti

20. (...) The State party should increase its ongoing efforts and: (...) (c) Continue to issue a birth certificate to every newborn refugee child to protect refugee children and prevent statelessness;  (...)  

20. (...) The State party should increase its ongoing efforts and:

(...)

(c) Continue to issue a birth certificate to every newborn refugee child to protect refugee children and prevent statelessness; 

(...)

 

Birth registration
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Statelessness Doc. CCPR/C/DJI/CO/1
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Mozambique

20. (...) The State party should strengthen its efforts to ensure registration of children, including by setting up special units working outside maternity hospitals and reaching all areas of the country, including the most remote ones, and conduct awareness raising campaigns on birth...

20. (...) The State party should strengthen its efforts to ensure registration of children, including by setting up special units working outside maternity hospitals and reaching all areas of the country, including the most remote ones, and conduct awareness raising campaigns on birth registration procedures within communities, in particular in rural areas.

Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/MOZ/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Tuvalu

30. The Committee recommends that the State party collect accurate and comprehensive data on birth registration, map the deficiencies and identify measures to address this issue, including through a Child Protection Baseline review conducted in cooperation with UNICEF, and also raise the...

30. The Committee recommends that the State party collect accurate and comprehensive data on birth registration, map the deficiencies and identify measures to address this issue, including through a Child Protection Baseline review conducted in cooperation with UNICEF, and also raise the awareness of parents, with a view to ensuring they fulfil their legal obligations.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/TUV/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Monaco

23. The Committee urges the State party to pursue its efforts to adopt legislation establishing the same right for men and women to pass on Monegasque nationality to their children, regardless of the manner in which nationality was acquired.

23. The Committee urges the State party to pursue its efforts to adopt legislation establishing the same right for men and women to pass on Monegasque nationality to their children, regardless of the manner in which nationality was acquired.

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CRC/C/MCO/CO/2-3
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Cambodia

31. The Committee calls upon the State party: (a) To intensify efforts to facilitate the birth registration of children born to Vietnamese mothers and their acquisition of citizenship; (b) To consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961...

31. The Committee calls upon the State party:
(a) To intensify efforts to facilitate the birth registration of children born to Vietnamese mothers and their acquisition of citizenship;
(b) To consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration Gender International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/KHM/CO/4-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

China

40. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Reform family planning policies in order to remove all forms of penalties and practices that deter parents or guardians from registering the birth of their children; (b) Abandon the hukou system in order to ensure birth registration...

40. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Reform family planning policies in order to remove all forms of penalties and practices that deter parents or guardians from registering the birth of their children;

(b) Abandon the hukou system in order to ensure birth registration for all children, especially for children of migrant workers;

(c) Simplify, streamline and facilitate the process of birth registration by removing all financial and administrative barriers associated with the process and improving services, including availability and access to birth registry services for parents and guardians;

(d) Intensify community sensitization and public awareness of the importance of birth registration, including among government agencies and in rural areas;

(e) Seek technical assistance from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), among others, to implement these recommendations.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/CHN/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Sao Tome and Principe

30. The Committee urges the State party to take further measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth and that the national legislation regulating birth registration is in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Convention, including by: (a) Ensuring...

30. The Committee urges the State party to take further measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth and that the national legislation regulating birth registration is in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Convention, including by:
(a) Ensuring adequate staffing to register all babies, including those born on weekends;
(b) Ensuring that birth registration and the issuance of birth certificates are provided free of charge in practice;
(c) Providing adequate and accessible mechanisms to enforce free birth registration and to report on officials seeking informal fees for birth registration, and imposing commensurate sanctions on perpetrators;
(d) Abolishing fines for late birth registrations and allowing for birth certificates to be issued up to the age of 18 years.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/STP/CO/2-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Kuwait

36. In the light of its recommendation of 1998 (CRC/C/15/Add.96, para. 20) and those of other treaty bodies, the Committee urges the State party to abide by its obligation to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered at birth and acquire a...

36. In the light of its recommendation of 1998 (CRC/C/15/Add.96, para. 20) and those of other treaty bodies, the Committee urges the State party to abide by its obligation to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered at birth and acquire a nationality, irrespective of the child’s or his or her parents’ or legal guardians’ sex, race, religion or ethnicity, social origin or status. The Committee urges the State party to take immediate action to:

(a) Ensure gender equality in the 1959 Nationality Act in order for all children born to a Kuwaiti mother and non-Kuwaiti father to automatically acquire their mother’s nationality;
(...) 
(c) Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

Birth registration Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/KWT/CO/2
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Tajikistan

32. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (d) Take the measures necessary to address the statelessness of women and children in the State party, including through amendment and enactment of relevant legislation, as well as through compulsory birth registration; (e) Ratify the...

32. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...)

(d) Take the measures necessary to address the statelessness of women and children in the State party, including through amendment and enactment of relevant legislation, as well as through compulsory birth registration;
(e) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TJK/CO/4-5
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Benin

25. The Committee recommends that the State party amend Act No. 65-17 of 23 June 1965 on nationality with a view to granting Beninese women equal rights with Beninese men regarding the retention or loss of their nationality, in addition to the transmission of Beninese nationality to their...

25. The Committee recommends that the State party amend Act No. 65-17 of 23 June 1965 on nationality with a view to granting Beninese women equal rights with Beninese men regarding the retention or loss of their nationality, in addition to the transmission of Beninese nationality to their foreign spouses. The Committee also calls upon the State party to increase its efforts to facilitate access to birth registration services for all women, especially for poor and rural women who do not give birth in a health facility, and to consider establishing a monitoring mechanism to ensure the enforcement of its regulatory framework in remote and rural areas.

Birth registration Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/BEN/CO/4