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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Gambia

20. The Committee welcomes the establishment of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system and the birth registration campaigns, awareness-raising initiatives and special measures with regard to children of non-Gambian parents, which have led to an increase in birth registration. The...

20. The Committee welcomes the establishment of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system and the birth registration campaigns, awareness-raising initiatives and special measures with regard to children of non-Gambian parents, which have led to an increase in birth registration. The Committee notes with concern, however, that birth registration remains low, with 59 per cent of children under 5 years of age registered in 2019, and that the majority of children under 5 years of age do not have birth certificates. Recalling its previous recommendations,9 the Committee urges the State party:

(a) To expeditiously finalize the adoption of the amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1990 to interlink the civil registration, vital statistics and health systems and align the civil registration system with international standards;

(b) To implement a digital birth registration system;

(c) To ensure the complete and immediate birth registration of all children, with particular attention to children under 5 years of age, children of unmarried parents and children of non-Gambian parents;

(d) To provide a birth certificate for every registered birth and ensure that all children without a birth certificate have access to essential services;

(e) To ensure the issuance of a birth certificate and an identification card and access to nationality for foundlings living in its territory;

(f) To facilitate the naturalization process for children living in a protracted refugee situation to ensure their access to rights;

(g) To allocate adequate funding to community outreach programmes and media campaigns to raise awareness on the importance and process of birth registration.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/GMB/CO/4-7
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Belarus

20. The Committee urges the State Party: b) To guarantee fair trial rights for all individuals, including those in exile, by discontinuing the practice of trials in absentia; restoring citizenship and legal documentation for all women affected by politically motivated charges; and ensuring...

20. The Committee urges the State Party:

b) To guarantee fair trial rights for all individuals, including those in exile, by discontinuing the practice of trials in absentia; restoring citizenship and legal documentation for all women affected by politically motivated charges; and ensuring due notification of charges against them, access to independent legal counsel of their choice, participation in legal proceedings and the right to appeal before an independent and impartial tribunal, free from political interference, in line with the State Party’s international human rights obligations;

56. The Committee recommends that the State Party:

(d) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Remedy/Reparation Loss/Deprivation International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/BLR/CO/9
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Liechtenstein

35. The Committee recommends that the State Party consider a general reduction of the required period of residence for obtaining citizenship and ensure that women and girls without citizenship can fully enjoy their rights under the Convention in the State Party.

35. The Committee recommends that the State Party consider a general reduction of the required period of residence for obtaining citizenship and ensure that women and girls without citizenship can fully enjoy their rights under the Convention in the State Party.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Access to nationality/Naturalization
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Doc. CEDAW/C/LIE/CO/6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

32. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (d) Expeditiously establish and operationalize the national reparations fund for children born of rape and ensure that the fund has sustainable funding, clear implementation timelines and a victim/survivor-centred approach that addresses...

32. The Committee recommends that the State Party:

(d) Expeditiously establish and operationalize the national reparations fund for children born of rape and ensure that the fund has sustainable funding, clear implementation timelines and a victim/survivor-centred approach that addresses the specific vulnerabilities and emotional and psychological suffering faced by these children and their mothers, including by taking the necessary measures to eradicate any direct and indirect discrimination in law, in particular ensuring the children’s birth registration and access to civil documentation, providing access to social protection to the children and their mothers and conducting destigmatization and awareness-raising campaigns in line with Security Council resolution 2467 (2019);

Birth registration
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Doc. CEDAW/C/COD/EP/CO/1
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Belize

30. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Adopt comprehensive legislation establishing a statelessness determination procedure...

30. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State Party:

(a) Adopt comprehensive legislation establishing a statelessness determination procedure and ensure that all women and girls in the State Party at risk of statelessness have access thereto;

(b) Facilitate women’s and girls’ access to birth registration, especially in rural and Indigenous areas and those with a high concentration of asylumseeking and migrant women and girls, through mobile civil registry units, affordable and easy-to-access procedures, including online, to ensure that they are not excluded from nationality, access to justice, education, healthcare, social benefits and other services;

(c) Ensure that the proposed amendments to the Nationality (Amendment) Act do not discriminate against women and girls on the basis of residency status;

44. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendations (CEDAW/C/BLZ/ CO/4, paras. 9 and 10) that the State Party put in place a comprehensive system of data collection in all areas covered by the Convention to assess the actual situation of women and to track trends over time. The Committee recommends that such a system mainstream gender and intersectionality and comprise, at least:

(a) Quantitative information (disaggregated by sex, ethnicity and rural and urban areas, as well as data on women with disabilities, Indigenous women, including Creole, Garifuna and Maya women, refugee, asylum-seeking, stateless and migrant women and girls, LGBT women, intersex persons and older women);

Identification and determination procedures Birth registration Discrimination - Other Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/BLZ/CO/5-9
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Ecuador

21. While noting the establishment of mobile units to ensure birth registration, the Committee urges the State party: (a) To adopt an action plan to achieve universal birth registration in rural, coastal and border areas, with an emphasis on the Provinces of Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas; ...

21. While noting the establishment of mobile units to ensure birth registration, the Committee urges the State party:

(a) To adopt an action plan to achieve universal birth registration in rural, coastal and border areas, with an emphasis on the Provinces of Guayas, Manabí and Esmeraldas;

(b) To conduct a thorough assessment of the impact of the mobile units with a view to improving their services and expanding their territorial coverage to areas in which there have been persistent gaps, and provide sufficient human, technical and financial resources for their activities;

(c) To adopt measures to retroactively issue birth certificates in cases of late birth registration or loss of an original birth certificate.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/ECU/CO/7
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