30. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(...) (c) Regularize the status of women from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and other women victims of trafficking who marry, either voluntarily or by forced marriage, or are in an unregistered union and have a child with a Chinese citizen, and ensure that their children obtain birth registration, are eligible for Chinese nationality and have access to education and health care without discrimination and would be allowed to leave China with their mothers who are defectors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea).
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 its legislation to recognize dual citizenship, consider ratifying or acceding to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and adopt a national asylum law that is in conformity with international standards;
(b) Ensure that all women, including refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant women have access to civil registration procedures and basic services, that passports are not confiscated on the basis of ethnic minority status and that national security legislation is not arbitrarily used to do so.
(Forced) migration context
Nationality/Identity documentation
Birth registration
Gender
Race/Ethnicity
International Instruments