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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Solomon Islands

80.37. Adopt all necessary measures, in accordance with article 7, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to guarantee the registration of all girls and boys at birth in Solomon Islands; as well as for those persons who have not been registered at birth. 

80.37. Adopt all necessary measures, in accordance with article 7, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to guarantee the registration of all girls and boys at birth in Solomon Islands; as well as for those persons who have not been registered at birth. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/18/8
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Solomon Islands

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

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

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/18/8
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Solomon Islands

81.48. Ensure that all children are registered at birth and make every effort to register all persons previously not registered. 

81.48. Ensure that all children are registered at birth and make every effort to register all persons previously not registered. 

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/18/8
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Seychelles

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

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

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/18/7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Sudan

83.63. Continue its active efforts to promote children’s rights, including the implementation of the new law on children promulgated in 2010, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration activities for children, enhancement of a juvenile court system, and work towards the compulsory...

83.63. Continue its active efforts to promote children’s rights, including the implementation of the new law on children promulgated in 2010, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration activities for children, enhancement of a juvenile court system, and work towards the compulsory registration of births and the eradication of female genital mutilation. 

Recommending State: Japan

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/18/16
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

78.6. Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

78.6. Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/18/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Suriname

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

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

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/18/12
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Suriname

73.23. Develop further and implement policies and legislation aimed at gender equality, particularly with regard to acquisition of nationality and to sexual or domestic violence. 

73.23. Develop further and implement policies and legislation aimed at gender equality, particularly with regard to acquisition of nationality and to sexual or domestic violence. 

Recommending State: Brazil

Recommendation Accepted

Access to nationality/Naturalization Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/18/12
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Serbia

19. (...) The State party should continue its efforts to provide all persons under its jurisdiction with identification documents, in particular those who were never registered or issued such documents. (...)

19. (...) The State party should continue its efforts to provide all persons under its jurisdiction with identification documents, in particular those who were never registered or issued such documents. (...)

Nationality/Identity documentation
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Doc. CCPR/C/SRB/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Singapore

36. The Committee recommends that the State party to revise its nationality law with a view to preventing children from being deprived of their citizenship, and to consider granting citizenship to all children born before 2004 of Singaporean mothers. 61. The Committee urges the State party...

36. The Committee recommends that the State party to revise its nationality law with a view to preventing children from being deprived of their citizenship, and to consider granting citizenship to all children born before 2004 of Singaporean mothers.

61. The Committee urges the State party to develop a legislative framework for the protection of asylum-seeking and refugee children, particularly unaccompanied children, in line with international standards, and consider ratifying the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The Committee also recommends the State party to take into account its general comment No. 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin.

Loss/Deprivation Access to nationality/Naturalization Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/SGP/CO/2-3