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Moldova

59. The lack of municipal property registration and identity documents were raised repeatedly by interlocutors as having a negative impact on the ability of Roma communities to exercise their rights, including to education, health care and social services. The Special Rapporteur was informed...

59. The lack of municipal property registration and identity documents were raised repeatedly by interlocutors as having a negative impact on the ability of Roma communities to exercise their rights, including to education, health care and social services. The Special Rapporteur was informed that, although some measures had been taken to address the problem, including the temporary free issuance of identity documents to Roma people, the issue still persists.

Nationality/Identity documentation
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Doc. A/HRC/34/53/Add.2

Iraq

10. Under the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein, discrimination and a campaign of persecution of ethnic and religious groups, including the Kurds, was pursued. (...) A denaturalization process deprived many of Iraqi citizenship (...). 30. Regulation 358 of 1975 prohibited the issuance of...

10. Under the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein, discrimination and a campaign of persecution of ethnic and religious groups, including the Kurds, was pursued. (...) A denaturalization process deprived many of Iraqi citizenship (...).

30. Regulation 358 of 1975 prohibited the issuance of national identity cards to Baha’is. They were consequently denied registration of marriages or births, and thus were deprived of the right to have a passport and a job, enter university, and buy and sell homes and property. 

Loss/Deprivation Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/34/53/Add.1
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Togo

128.26 Ensure universal birth registration and take the necessary steps to achieve universal primary education and combat illiteracy. 

128.26 Ensure universal birth registration and take the necessary steps to achieve universal primary education and combat illiteracy. 

Recommending State: Slovenia

Recommendation Accepted

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Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/34/4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Togo

129.12 Adopt laws guaranteeing compulsory birth registration.  

129.12 Adopt laws guaranteeing compulsory birth registration.  

Recommending State: Lebanon

Recommendation Accepted

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Doc. A/HRC/34/4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Togo

128.27 Take the necessary measures to ensure that birth registration is obligatory and free for all children. 

128.27 Take the necessary measures to ensure that birth registration is obligatory and free for all children. 

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Accepted

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Doc. A/HRC/34/4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Togo

129.13 Ensure that birth registration is free and compulsory in practice and guarantee that children without a birth certificate are not deprived of access to education, health care and other social services, in line with the recommendation of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

129.13 Ensure that birth registration is free and compulsory in practice and guarantee that children without a birth certificate are not deprived of access to education, health care and other social services, in line with the recommendation of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

Recommending State: Namibia

Recommendation Accepted

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Doc. A/HRC/34/4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Togo

128.25 Establish a functional registry system reaching the whole population, by, inter alia, extending the time for free birth registration and offering birth certificate establishment procedures for the unregistered. 

128.25 Establish a functional registry system reaching the whole population, by, inter alia, extending the time for free birth registration and offering birth certificate establishment procedures for the unregistered. 

Recommending State: Germany

Recommendation Accepted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Togo

128.28 Put in place concrete measures to facilitate birth registration by extending the free registration deadline and through multiplication of awareness-raising activities thereon. 

128.28 Put in place concrete measures to facilitate birth registration by extending the free registration deadline and through multiplication of awareness-raising activities thereon. 

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Accepted

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Doc. A/HRC/34/4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Timor Leste

89.43 Continue to adopt measures to increase the rate of issuance of birth certificates, especially in rural areas, while introducing specific measures to register migrant children at birth. 

89.43 Continue to adopt measures to increase the rate of issuance of birth certificates, especially in rural areas, while introducing specific measures to register migrant children at birth. 

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Accepted

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Doc. A/HRC/34/11
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Timor Leste

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

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

Recommending State: Australia

Recommendation Noted

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International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/34/11