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Number of results found: 2020

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Thailand

52.16 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

52.16 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: Cote d'Ivoire

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Thailand

51.190 Continue to promote the human rights of stateless persons, particularly in education, social protection, and access to birth registration. 

51.190 Continue to promote the human rights of stateless persons, particularly in education, social protection, and access to birth registration. 

Recommending State: Kyrgyzstan

Recommendation Accepted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Birth registration
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Thailand

52.73 Ensure Thai women have the right to pass on their citizenship to their spouses and children. 

52.73 Ensure Thai women have the right to pass on their citizenship to their spouses and children

Recommending State: Cyprus

Recommendation Noted

Gender
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Thailand

51.97 Take additional specific measures to ensure the effective implementation of the right to nationality of stateless children born in Thailand and ensure their inclusion in society. 

51.97 Take additional specific measures to ensure the effective implementation of the right to nationality of stateless children born in Thailand and ensure their inclusion in society. 

Recommending State: Angola

Recommendation Accepted

Remedy/Reparation Born on territory
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Thailand

52.16 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

52.16 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: Costa Rica

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Tanzania

147.12 Continue to increase access to birth registration for all children born in Tanzania, including migrants and refugees thus avoiding statelessness.

147.12 Continue to increase access to birth registration for all children born in Tanzania, including migrants and refugees thus avoiding statelessness.

Recommending State: Eswatini

Recommendation Noted

Birth registration
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Tanzania

147.1 Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 

147.1 Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. 

Recommending State: Cote d'Ivoire

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Poland

22. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen the prevention of statelessness among children, including by extending protection to children born to undocumented stateless parents; (b) Consider ratifying...

22. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen the prevention of statelessness among children, including by extending protection to children born to undocumented stateless parents;

(b) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, the European Convention on Nationality and the Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession.

41. Recalling joint general comments No. 3 and No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families/No. 22 and No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the human rights of children in the context of international migration, the Committee reiterates its previous recommendations12 and urges the State party to:

(...) 

(i) Consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

International Instruments
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Micronesia

86.143 Redouble efforts for the early registration of births and the issuance of birth certificates, particularly in the peripheral islands, and regularize the national system of identity documents. 

86.143 Redouble efforts for the early registration of births and the issuance of birth certificates, particularly in the peripheral islands, and regularize the national system of identity documents. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Maldives

36. The Committee recommends that the State party revise its nationality law in order to remove discrimination against women with regard to the transmission of nationality, and improve mechanisms for identification and protection of stateless women and girls, including through access to...

36. The Committee recommends that the State party revise its nationality law in order to remove discrimination against women with regard to the transmission of nationality, and improve mechanisms for identification and protection of stateless women and girls, including through access to transparent and effective asylum procedures.

Identification and determination procedures Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action