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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Republic of the Congo

32. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Strengthen efforts to promote and ensure birth registration, particularly in rural areas and among Indigenous women and girls, through such measures as providing incentives for birth registration and conducting awareness-raising on the...

32. The Committee recommends that the State Party:

(a) Strengthen efforts to promote and ensure birth registration, particularly in rural areas and among Indigenous women and girls, through such measures as providing incentives for birth registration and conducting awareness-raising on the importance of birth registration, in collaboration with local and traditional leaders and grass-roots civil society organizations;

(b) Collect and standardize the collection of data on birth registration, disaggregated by sex, age, region and other relevant characteristics, and establish mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating awareness-raising and capacity-building efforts;

(c) Accelerate efforts to amend the Nationality Law to ensure that Congolese women have the right to transfer their nationality to their foreign spouses, on an equal basis with Congolese men.

Birth registration Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/COG/CO/8
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Slovakia

42. 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 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017) on the human rights of children in the context of international...

42. 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 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017) on the human rights of children in the context of international migration, and its general comment No. 6 (2005) on treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, the Committee urges the State party:

(f) Establish national legislation on a statelessness determination procedure in order to give effect to the rights of stateless children as enshrined in the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;

Identification and determination procedures
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/SVK/CO/6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Honduras

19. The Committee urges the State party: (a) To strengthen measures to ensure birth registration and the issuance of certificates for all children born in its territory, particularly those born in remote areas or outside of hospitals, including by ensuring the availability and proximity of...

19. The Committee urges the State party:

(a) To strengthen measures to ensure birth registration and the issuance of certificates for all children born in its territory, particularly those born in remote areas or outside of hospitals, including by ensuring the availability and proximity of civil registry offices throughout the State party and by sending regular civil registration brigades to places where there is a higher prevalence of late or non-registration;

(b) To ensure that birth registration is free in all cases and circumstances, regardless of the person’s age or place of birth.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/HND/CO/6-7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Saint Kittis and Nevis

29. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Review its legislation on and the record management process for birth registration and speed up the digitalization of birth registration; (b) Abolish the requirement for...

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

(a) Review its legislation on and the record management process for birth registration and speed up the digitalization of birth registration;

(b) Abolish the requirement for the full cost associated with childbirth to be paid in order to receive a birth certificate, particularly in Nevis, and ensure that all children are properly registered at birth and have access to their birth certificate;

(c) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;

(d) Seek technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF, among others, for the implementation of the recommendations on birth registration.

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/KNA/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Peru

18. The Committee urges the State party: (a) To ensure free birth registration and the issuance of birth certificates immediately after birth for all children born in its territory, regardless of the child’s or parents’ immigration status, official documentation or asylum-seeking status,...

18. The Committee urges the State party:

(a) To ensure free birth registration and the issuance of birth certificates immediately after birth for all children born in its territory, regardless of the child’s or parents’ immigration status, official documentation or asylum-seeking status, paying particular attention to children born in the border areas of the Amazon Basin, Indigenous children, children in rural and remote areas and migrant and refugee children;

(b) To remove any requirement for parental documentation as a prerequisite for the issuance of birth certificates.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/PER/CO/6-7
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Kenya

6. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Intensify efforts under the Strategy for Development Statistics to collect reliable, updated and comprehensive statistics on the demographic composition of the population, ensuring the principle of self-identification. This should...

6. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Intensify efforts under the Strategy for Development Statistics to collect reliable, updated and comprehensive statistics on the demographic composition of the population, ensuring the principle of self-identification. This should include ethnic groups, Indigenous Peoples, and non-citizens, such as migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons;

(b) Produce disaggregated statistics on the socioeconomic conditions of ethnic groups, Indigenous Peoples and non-citizens, including their rights to work, social security, housing, water and sanitation, health and education, to provide an empirical basis for evaluating the equal enjoyment of rights under the Convention; (...)

21. The Committee acknowledges the State party’s long-standing tradition of hosting refugees, and the challenges it faces. However, it expresses concern about: (...)

(c) Reports of continued high levels of statelessness, particularly among the Nubian community;

(d) Reports of a considerable number of children, including refugee children, without birth certificates, which increases their risk of statelessness (arts. 2 and 5).

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

(e) Establish a dedicated and effective determination procedure in relation to statelessness, paying particular attention to the Nubian community;

(f) Guarantee birth registration without discrimination, irrespective of whether mothers possess identity documents.

33. (...) The Committee encourages the State party to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Identification and determination procedures Birth registration International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/KEN/CO/8-9
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

141.14 Accelerate the process of ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

141.14 Accelerate the process of ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Togo

Recommendation Accepted

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International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/58/6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

141.11 Redouble efforts to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

141.11 Redouble efforts to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Niger

Recommendation Accepted

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International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/58/6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

141.282 Continue to strengthen measures to address issues related to birth certificates for children, especially returnees, refugees and internally displaced persons.

141.282 Continue to strengthen measures to address issues related to birth certificates for children, especially returnees, refugees and internally displaced persons.

Recommending State: Angola

Recommendation Accepted

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Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/58/6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

141.284 Promptly address the issue of statelessness in refugee camps.

141.284 Promptly address the issue of statelessness in refugee camps.

Recommending State: Holy See

Recommendation Accepted

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(Forced) migration context
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/58/6