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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

North Macedonia

8. Put in place a national comprehensive plan for civil status registration and the right to identity, which includes awareness raising-campaigns for parents, guardians and other responsible persons, which will help to speed up the registration of births. 

8. Put in place a national comprehensive plan for civil status registration and the right to identity, which includes awareness raising-campaigns for parents, guardians and other responsible persons, which will help to speed up the registration of births. 

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

North Macedonia

41. Promote the exercise by the Roma of their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular by implementing programmes to facilitate birth registration and the issuing identity documents for this sector of the population. 

41. Promote the exercise by the Roma of their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular by implementing programmes to facilitate birth registration and the issuing identity documents for this sector of the population. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Yemen

6. Take concrete measures to ensure effective birth registration, particularly in remote and rural areas. 

6. Take concrete measures to ensure effective birth registration, particularly in remote and rural areas. 

Recommending State: Norway

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/13
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Republic of the Congo

28. Improve procedures aimed at raising the percentage of children registered at birth. 

28. Improve procedures aimed at raising the percentage of children registered at birth. 

Recommending State: Italy

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Monaco

8. Make the conditions for acquiring and transferring nationality the same for men and women. 

8. Make the conditions for acquiring and transferring nationality the same for men and women. 

Recommending State: Republic of the Congo

Recommendation Accepted

Gender
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Monaco

9. Ensure that relevant rules are applied equally irrespective of sex and adopt legislation to allow the transmission of nationality by naturalized Monegasque women to their children. 

9. Ensure that relevant rules are applied equally irrespective of sex and adopt legislation to allow the transmission of nationality by naturalized Monegasque women to their children. 

Recommending State: Azerbaijan

Recommendation Accepted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Central African Republic

5. Consider ratifying the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless...

5. Consider ratifying the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights; the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons; the Convention on the Nationality of Married Women; international conventions on apartheid; and OP-CAT. 

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/12/2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Belize

17. Rectify possible shortcomings in the registration procedure for all newborn children. 

17. Rectify possible shortcomings in the registration procedure for all newborn children. 

Recommending State: Czechia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

21. The Committee is concerned at information indicating violations of the rights of migrant workers to an effective remedy, in particular in relation to the revocation of rights of citizenship and subsequent expulsion orders. In this regard, the Committee is concerned that migrant workers...

21. The Committee is concerned at information indicating violations of the rights of migrant workers to an effective remedy, in particular in relation to the revocation of rights of citizenship and subsequent expulsion orders. In this regard, the Committee is concerned that migrant workers who have been stripped of their right to citizenship are particularly vulnerable to having their due process rights violated.

22. The Committee encourages the State party to strengthen the legal framework available to migrant workers for the effective redress of such complaints. It recommends that the State party ensure that, in legislation and in practice, migrant workers and members of their families, including those in an irregular situation, have the same rights as nationals of the State party to file complaints and to obtain effective redress before the courts

Remedy/Reparation Loss/Deprivation Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Comoros

29. Establish systematic registration of all newborn children and adopt further measures, including awareness-raising campaigns, to fight child labour and violence against children. 

29. Establish systematic registration of all newborn children and adopt further measures, including awareness-raising campaigns, to fight child labour and violence against children. 

Recommending State: Czechia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/12/16