ISI Database on Statelessness and
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Connecting nationality, statelessness and human rights. Explore and compare information from the international human rights monitoring systems to promote a human rights-based approach to nationality and statelessness.

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Number of results found: 2342

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

26. (...) The Committee requests the State party to accelerate the process of issuance of identity cards to all eligible women.

26. (...) The Committee requests the State party to accelerate the process of issuance of identity cards to all eligible women.

Nationality/Identity documentation

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

36. The Committee recommends that the State party continue and strengthen its efforts to encourage birth registration of all children. The Committee urges the State party to ensure allocation of adequate financial, human and other resources to registration centres and to take measures,...

36. The Committee recommends that the State party continue and strengthen its efforts to encourage birth registration of all children. The Committee urges the State party to ensure allocation of adequate financial, human and other resources to registration centres and to take measures, including mobile services, to ensure easy access to registration by the population in all areas of the country. The Committee further urges the State party to put in place a mechanism to provide for late registration of births free of charge.

Birth registration

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

17. While welcoming the pledge by the State party’s delegation that Law No. 18 of 1980 on the provisions of the nationality law will be amended in order to comply with article 9 of the Convention, the Committee remains concerned that Libyan women married to non-Libyan nationals are not...

17. While welcoming the pledge by the State party’s delegation that Law No. 18 of 1980 on the provisions of the nationality law will be amended in order to comply with article 9 of the Convention, the Committee remains concerned that Libyan women married to non-Libyan nationals are not granted equal rights with men with respect to the nationality of their children. (...)

18. The Committee encourages the State party to accelerate the process of amendment of Law No. 18 of 1980 to make it consistent with article 9 of the Convention. (...)

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

4. To consider the possibility of introducing amendments to national laws on citizenship, so that female citizens married to non-citizens can pass on their nationality to their children in the same way that male citizens married to non-citizens do.

4. To consider the possibility of introducing amendments to national laws on citizenship, so that female citizens married to non-citizens can pass on their nationality to their children in the same way that male citizens married to non-citizens do.

Recommending State: Germany

Recommendation Noted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

62. Adopt measures ensuring effective national birth registration, including through programmes of mobile registration units and registration of those without documentation.

62. Adopt measures ensuring effective national birth registration, including through programmes of mobile registration units and registration of those without documentation.

Recommending State: Czechia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

38. Strengthen efforts to ensure that all newborn children are officially registered.

38. Strengthen efforts to ensure that all newborn children are officially registered.

Recommending State: Czechia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

7. To take necessary measures, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to prevent child abuse and neglect and increase efforts to ensure the registration of all children at birth.

7. To take necessary measures, as recommended by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, to prevent child abuse and neglect and increase efforts to ensure the registration of all children at birth.

Recommending State: Italy

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

19. Clarify the legal status of refugees from neighbouring States, with a focus on the prevention of statelessness.

19. Clarify the legal status of refugees from neighbouring States, with a focus on the prevention of statelessness.

Recommending State: Slovenia

Recommendation Accepted

Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

30. While welcoming the royal decree, issued in September 2006 by the King granting citizenship to at least 372 children of Bahraini mothers and non-citizen fathers, the Committee remains concerned that to date, the draft Nationality Law concerning the elimination of nationality-related...

30. While welcoming the royal decree, issued in September 2006 by the King granting citizenship to at least 372 children of Bahraini mothers and non-citizen fathers, the Committee remains concerned that to date, the draft Nationality Law concerning the elimination of nationality-related cases of discrimination against women allowing the transfer of Bahraini citizenship to the children of Bahraini women and non-citizen fathers on the same basis as children of Bahraini fathers and non-citizen women has not yet been passed.

31. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary steps to expedite the adoption of the draft Nationality Law in order to comply with article 9 of the Convention, and to withdraw its reservation to article 9, paragraph 2.

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

31. The Committee calls upon the State party to review the 1982 citizenship law and repeal or amend it, as appropriate, in order to bring it fully into compliance with article 9 of the Convention. It also calls on the State party to provide more information on Myanmar citizenship rights,...

31. The Committee calls upon the State party to review the 1982 citizenship law and repeal or amend it, as appropriate, in order to bring it fully into compliance with article 9 of the Convention. It also calls on the State party to provide more information on Myanmar citizenship rights, including on birth certificates of children born in Myanmar, in particular children of ethnic groups, in its next periodic report.

33. The Committee urges the State party to grant citizenship to residents, in particular, on the basis of their long-standing ties to Myanmar, to the Muslims of northern Rakhine State and to allow them, in particular the women, the full enjoyment of their human rights. The State party is encouraged to continue to collaborate with the international community, especially the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in those efforts.

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