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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Algeria

45.The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (e) Ensure that birth certificates are issued to all children born in Algeria, including refugee and stateless children, in order to prevent statelessness and to provide all children with access to social services; (f) Consider...

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

(e) Ensure that birth certificates are issued to all children born in Algeria, including refugee and stateless children, in order to prevent statelessness and to provide all children with access to social services;
(f) Consider acceding to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Lack of documents/Access to documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/DZA/CO/3-4
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Jordan

10. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (b) Revise its law on nationality and remove its reservation to article 9 paragraph 2;  34. The Committee urges the State party: (a) To review the Nationality Act, while taking into consideration practices of neighbouring State...

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

(b) Revise its law on nationality and remove its reservation to article 9 paragraph 2; 

34. The Committee urges the State party:
(a) To review the Nationality Act, while taking into consideration practices of neighbouring State parties that have successfully amended their nationality laws, to ensure equality between women and men with regard to the acquisition, change and retention of nationality and to enable Jordanian women to pass their nationality to their foreign spouses and their mutual children; and
(b) To accelerate its efforts in facilitating provision of residence permits to foreign spouses of Jordanian women and access to health and education services to their children, as a temporary special measure until the Nationality Act is amended accordingly.

Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/JOR/CO/5
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Republic of the Congo

40. The Committee recommends that the State party: (..) (c) Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

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

(c) Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/COG/CO/6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Myanmar

42. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Address gaps in the current citizenship legislation, which lead to statelessness; (b) Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness; (c) Abrogate the...

42. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Address gaps in the current citizenship legislation, which lead to statelessness;
(b) Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;
(c) Abrogate the legal provisions providing for different categories of citizenship; (...)

44. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen its efforts to ensure effective registration of all children born in the State party, regardless of their origin and without any discrimination;

(b) Implement special measures for improving the birth registration system, greater access to registry services and sensitization and training for registry officials, with a view to ensuring that all children, including children born in remote areas, and displaced and stateless children, especially Rohingya children, are duly registered at birth and provided with birth certificates and identity cards; 

(c) Develop a plan to provide birth registration to all children up to 18 years of age who have not yet been registered;

(d) Remove practical restrictions to ensure that all children are registered at birth without discrimination; (...)    

80. The Committee strongly recommends that the State party: (...)

(c) Allow Rohingya people, including children, who fled Myanmar to return to the country, and assist them in their reintegration.

Stateless Persons - Other Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/MMR/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Azerbaijan

39. The Committee recommends that the State party undertake all necessary measures to ensure the availability of universal birth registration for all children regardless of the circumstance of birth, and/or the marital and/or migration status of the child’s parent(s). It also recommends that...

39. The Committee recommends that the State party undertake all necessary measures to ensure the availability of universal birth registration for all children regardless of the circumstance of birth, and/or the marital and/or migration status of the child’s parent(s). It also recommends that the State party consider taking specific measures to facilitate birth registration for children of underage mothers and/or mothers in rural areas. Furthermore, the Committee also recommends that the State party take specific measures, including legislative measures, to combat corruption among authorities responsible for the provision of birth certificates.

67. (d) To provide for all children born on the territory of Azerbaijan, regardless of status, to be registered at birth and receive all necessary documentation;
 

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

Madagascar

32. The Committee recommends that the State party urgently finalize the reform of the legislation on nationality of children and ensures that no discrimination exists against children born of a Malagasy mother and a father of foreign nationality or children born out of wedlock. The Committee...

32. The Committee recommends that the State party urgently finalize the reform of the legislation on nationality of children and ensures that no discrimination exists against children born of a Malagasy mother and a father of foreign nationality or children born out of wedlock. The Committee also urges the State party to ensure that children born in Madagascar do not risk being stateless.

34. The Committee recommends that the State party continue and intensify its efforts in ensuring free and compulsory birth registration for all children, including through use of mobile registration centres, and raise public awareness about the importance of birth registration. To achieve this objective, the State party should allocate adequate human, technical and financial resources to ensure easy access to registration by population in rural as well as urban areas.

Born on territory Birth registration Gender Discrimination - Other Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/MDG/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Togo

40. The Committee urges the State party to ensure that all children are properly registered at birth and that birth registration is free and compulsory in practice. To this aim, the State party should: (a) Adopt the decrees and measures contained in the law on the organization of the civil...

40. The Committee urges the State party to ensure that all children are properly registered at birth and that birth registration is free and compulsory in practice. To this aim, the State party should:

(a) Adopt the decrees and measures contained in the law on the organization of the civil registry system concerning birth registration, and provide adequate resources for its implementation;

(b) Increase the number of birth registration facilities, including mobile birth registration units, at the local, community and village levels;

(c) Urgently enforce the provisions of the law relating to the organization of the civil registry system in order to regulate and reduce the costs of birth certificates;

(d) Conduct awareness-raising campaigns, with the active support of community leaders, to promote birth registration for all children; and

(e) Guarantee that children without a birth certificate are not deprived of access to education, health care and other social services.

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

Thailand

42. The Committee urges the State party to further review and enact legislation in order to ensure that all children who are at risk of becoming stateless, including children belonging to the disadvantaged groups mentioned in paragraph 41, are provided with access to Thai nationality. The...

42. The Committee urges the State party to further review and enact legislation in order to ensure that all children who are at risk of becoming stateless, including children belonging to the disadvantaged groups mentioned in paragraph 41, are provided with access to Thai nationality. The Committee recommends that the State party consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and its 1967 Optional Protocol, and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

44. The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to ensure birth registration for all children born on its territory especially those who are not registered due to the economic status of their parents, ethnicity and immigration status. It also recommends that the State party carry out public education programmes, including campaigns to provide birth registration to those children already born in the territory of the State party but remain unregistered, as well as remove any monetary penalties for late registrations and take alternative measures to ensure timely registration of new-born children.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/THA/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Syria

42. The Committee recalls the responsibilities of the State party, in accordance with articles 2 and 7 of the Convention, to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered and acquire a nationality, irrespective of the child’s or his or her...

42. The Committee recalls the responsibilities of the State party, in accordance with articles 2 and 7 of the Convention, to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered 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 therefore urges the State party:

(a) To take immediate steps to guarantee that all children of Syrian-born Kurdish parents, including children of stateless Kurds known as Maktoumeen promptly acquire Syrian nationality and enjoy their rights without discrimination;
(b) To proceed with the amendment of the Nationality Act to allow children of Syrian mothers married to foreign nationals to acquire the nationality of their mothers;
(c) To ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954, and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

44. The Committee urges the State party to strengthen its efforts to ensure the effective registration of all children born in the State party, regardless of their origin and without any discrimination. To this aim, the Committee urges the State party to amend the Personal Status Code, to fully recognize all mixed marriages and to take all the necessary measures to protect and properly register children born out of wedlock and children from remote areas.

Birth registration Gender Race/Ethnicity International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/SYR/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Republic of Korea

37. In accordance with article 7 of the Convention, the Committee urges the State party to undertake measures to ensure that birth registration is available to all children regardless of their parents’ legal status and/or origin. In doing so, the Committee further urges the State party to...

37. In accordance with article 7 of the Convention, the Committee urges the State party to undertake measures to ensure that birth registration is available to all children regardless of their parents’ legal status and/or origin. In doing so, the Committee further urges the State party to ensure and verify that the registration accurately indicates the biological parents of the child.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/KOR/CO/3-4