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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Central African Republic

36. 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) Set up a time frame for completing the reform of the Nationality Code and ensure that...

36. 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) Set up a time frame for completing the reform of the Nationality Code and ensure that the Code recognizes the equal right of women of the Central African Republic to transmit their nationality to a foreign spouse, that it provides for the automatic transfer of nationality from mothers to their children, including children born to women of the Central African Republic who are living abroad or to internally displaced women, and that it protects women and children from statelessness, in line with the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;

(b) Facilitate the access of Muslim, indigenous and nomadic women to birth registration and birth certificates for their children, and to identity documents.

63. (...) The Committee also encourages the State party to ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Born abroad Birth registration Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/CAF/CO/6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Niger

24. In line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25 (2004) on temporary special measures, the Committee recommends that the State party: (b) Adopt temporary special measures, such as targeted recruitment, hiring and promotion, public budgeting...

24. In line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25 (2004) on temporary special measures, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(b) Adopt temporary special measures, such as targeted recruitment, hiring and promotion, public budgeting and procurement and affirmative action, and establish time-bound targets, as a necessary strategy to accelerate the achievement of substantive equality between women and men in all areas covered by the Convention where women are underrepresented or disadvantaged, such as education, employment, heath care, conflict resolution, peacemaking processes, investment models and economic and social life, with particular attention given to internally displaced women, refugee, stateless and migrant women, women with disabilities, rural women and older women;

38. With reference to its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the genderrelated dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Adopt legislation to regulate statelessness determination procedures;

(b) Ensure that effective legal safeguards and remedies are available to stateless women and children awaiting deportation and ensure the effective protection and resilience of forcibly displaced persons and their peaceful coexistence with host communities;

(c) Collect data on stateless women and girls, disaggregated by age and ethnicity, and provide such data in its next periodic report, along with the results of the study on the situation of statelessness and the risk of statelessness.

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/NER/CO/5
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Tajikistan

45. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure that stateless women, women of undetermined nationality and women at risk of statelessness and their children have adequate access to identity documents, justice, employment, health care, housing and social protection; (b) Renew...

45. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Ensure that stateless women, women of undetermined nationality and women at risk of statelessness and their children have adequate access to identity documents, justice, employment, health care, housing and social protection;

(b) Renew the amnesty law to enable stateless persons and foreigners living in the State party to regularize their legal status;

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

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Lack of documents/Access to documentation Remedy/Reparation International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TJK/CO/7
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Turkmenistan

38. 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) Amend the definition of statelessness in the Turkmenistan Citizenship Act (2013) to...

38. 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) Amend the definition of statelessness in the Turkmenistan Citizenship Act (2013) to bring it into conformity with article 1 of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;

(b) Ease the requirements for refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless women and girls to apply for Turkmen citizenship and ensure that they have access to the necessary legal assistance and documentation;

(c) Ensure that all children born in the State party have access to birth registration and birth certificates, irrespective of their parent’s legal status, facilitate birth registration procedures, including by reducing costs, deploying mobile civil registrar units to remote areas and providing relevant information in accessible languages to refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless women and girls, and uphold obligations under the Civil Status Act (2020);

(d) Ensure that Turkmen women and girls living abroad have adequate access to passport renewal procedures, thereby preventing the risk of statelessness;

(...)

Remedy/Reparation Stateless Persons - Other (Forced) migration context Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TKM/CO/6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Nicaragua

34. 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) Repeal Act No. 1145 of 2023, which provides for deprivation of nationality of...

34. 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) Repeal Act No. 1145 of 2023, which provides for deprivation of nationality of citizens expressing dissenting opinions, and reinstate nationality in all cases where women have been deprived of it on political grounds;

(b) Adopt measures, in accordance with article 9 of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961), to prevent statelessness and adopt a plan to facilitate the safe return of Nicaraguan-born women who wish to return to the State party.

Remedy/Reparation Loss/Deprivation International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/NIC/CO/7-10
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Cameroon

35.291 Consider possibilities to incorporate the provisions of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness into domestic law

35.291 Consider possibilities to incorporate the provisions of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness into domestic law

Recommending State: Niger

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/55/16
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Cameroon

35.250 Increase access to birth registrations through the introduction of mobile courts for the issuance of birth certificates, with a focus on those in rural and remote areas

35.250 Increase access to birth registrations through the introduction of mobile courts for the issuance of birth certificates, with a focus on those in rural and remote areas

Recommending State: Ireland

Recommendation Accepted

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Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/55/16
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Cameroon

35.289 Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

35.289 Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Recommending State: Mali

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/55/16
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Cameroon

35.258 Continue to take necessary measures to guarantee and ensure the registration of all births of children and the free-of-charge issuance of birth certificates

35.258 Continue to take necessary measures to guarantee and ensure the registration of all births of children and the free-of-charge issuance of birth certificates

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Accepted

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Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/55/16
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Cameroon

35.290 Consider possibilities to incorporate the provisions of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons into domestic law

35.290 Consider possibilities to incorporate the provisions of the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons into domestic law

Recommending State: Niger

Recommendation Accepted

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International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/55/16