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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Cambodia

37. In light of article 7 of the Convention, the Committee urges the State party to guarantee free birth registration for all, regardless of their parent’s legal status and origins. 79. The Committee is concerned that children of Vietnamese origin are still not recognized as citizens, which...

37. In light of article 7 of the Convention, the Committee urges the State party to guarantee free birth registration for all, regardless of their parent’s legal status and origins.

79. The Committee is concerned that children of Vietnamese origin are still not recognized as citizens, which leads them to live in poor and segregated conditions without access to identity documents and makes them very vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation. (...)

80. The Committee urges the State party to acknowledge that children of Vietnamese origin are subject to discrimination and to take all necessary measures to address their situation and ensure that they have effective access to birth registration, identity documents, public education and health care services. (...)

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/KHM/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Costa Rica

36. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to ensure that all indigenous and migrant children are registered at birth and provided with personal documents enabling them to access social services, by ensuring that pregnant indigenous as well as migrant women,...

36. The Committee recommends that the State party intensify its efforts to ensure that all indigenous and migrant children are registered at birth and provided with personal documents enabling them to access social services, by ensuring that pregnant indigenous as well as migrant women, including those who are undocumented or in an irregular situation, have adequate access to hospitals and health centres, and by educating parents on the need to register their children. The Committee also recommends that the State party consider concluding bilateral agreements with neighbouring States, with a view to granting dual citizenship to migrant children.

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

Cuba

31. The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to a nationality, including by reviewing and amending the national legislation in order to provide safeguards against statelessness. The Committee also reiterates the recommendation...

31. The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to a nationality, including by reviewing and amending the national legislation in order to provide safeguards against statelessness. The Committee also reiterates the recommendation made by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/CUB/CO/14-18, para. 19) to ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/CUB/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Bahrain

39. The Committee strongly urges the State party to revise its national legislation with a view to allowing the transfer of Bahraini citizenship to the children of Bahraini mothers and non-citizen fathers on the same basis as the transfer of citizenship to children of Bahraini fathers and...

39. The Committee strongly urges the State party to revise its national legislation with a view to allowing the transfer of Bahraini citizenship to the children of Bahraini mothers and non-citizen fathers on the same basis as the transfer of citizenship to children of Bahraini fathers and non-citizen mothers.

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

Republic of Korea

26. The Committee acknowledges the written and oral information provided on the eligibility requirements for acquiring Korean nationality. However, it is concerned about the difficulties foreign women married to Korean men may face in acquiring Korean nationality if they do not comply with...

26. The Committee acknowledges the written and oral information provided on the eligibility requirements for acquiring Korean nationality. However, it is concerned about the difficulties foreign women married to Korean men may face in acquiring Korean nationality if they do not comply with the prerequisite of being supported by their husbands in order to file a naturalization application and if they do not have
children.

27. The Committee recommends that the State party revise its legislation governing nationality with a view to removing all discriminatory provisions relating to the requirements for acquiring Korean nationality, in accordance with article 9 of the Convention.

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/KOR/CO/7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Egypt

43. In light of article 7 of the Convention, the Committee urges the State party to ensure free and compulsory birth registration to all children born in the State party as guaranteed by law, paying particular attention to children in remote and deprived regions, including Upper Egypt,...

43. In light of article 7 of the Convention, the Committee urges the State party to ensure free and compulsory birth registration to all children born in the State party as guaranteed by law, paying particular attention to children in remote and deprived regions, including Upper Egypt, children of migrant workers, children in street situations and children born out of wedlock. The Committee recommends that the State party abolish birth registration fees.

44. (...) While welcoming the joint decree by the Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs on 2 May 2011 allowing Egyptian women married to Palestinian men to pass on their nationality to their children, the Committee is concerned that this provision has not yet been fully incorporated into domestic law. (...) 

45. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the decree of 2 May 2011 is fully incorporated into national law, including by amending Act No. 154 of 2004 to the effect that it explicitly grants all children born to Egyptian mothers or fathers the nationality of the State party, irrespectively of the nationality and origin of either parent. It calls upon the State party to ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Birth registration Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/EGY/CO/3-4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Denmark

106.130.Implement the legal provisions and, where necessary, adopt legal reforms to guarantee family reunification of foreigners who have settled in Denmark, particularly family members of refugees, in accordance with the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967...

106.130.Implement the legal provisions and, where necessary, adopt legal reforms to guarantee family reunification of foreigners who have settled in Denmark, particularly family members of refugees, in accordance with the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, as well as the 1954 Convention Relating to the status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Recommending State: Ecuador

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/18/4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Denmark

106.115. Oversee the citizenship policy regarding the granting of citizenship to stateless persons in order to ensure that it corresponds with the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

106.115. Oversee the citizenship policy regarding the granting of citizenship to stateless persons in order to ensure that it corresponds with the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Recommending State: Finland

Recommendation Accepted

Remedy/Reparation Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/18/4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Greece

84.8. Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

84.8. Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/18/13
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Greece

85.7. Speed up the process of reinstating the citizenship of approximately 60,000 Greek citizens who were deprived of Greek citizenship, because of the later repelled article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Law. Create a mechanism to compensate their losses in terms of ownership rights that...

85.7. Speed up the process of reinstating the citizenship of approximately 60,000 Greek citizens who were deprived of Greek citizenship, because of the later repelled article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Law. Create a mechanism to compensate their losses in terms of ownership rights that occurred as a result of the process.

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Noted

Remedy/Reparation Loss/Deprivation
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Doc. A/HRC/18/13