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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Mozambique

90.6. Ratify OP-ICESCR, the Rome Statute of the ICC as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

90.6. Ratify OP-ICESCR, the Rome Statute of the ICC as well as 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/17/16
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Niger

76.2 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

76.2 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/17/15
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Myanmar

106.13. Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties, such as ICCPR, CERD and CAT as well as the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

106.13. Ratify the remaining core human rights treaties, such as ICCPR, CERD and CAT as well as the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Recommending State: Hungary

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/17/9
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Myanmar

107.10. Adapt the Citizenship Act of 1982 in order to put an end to the statelessness of the Rohingya population. 

107.10. Adapt the Citizenship Act of 1982 in order to put an end to the statelessness of the Rohingya population. 

Recommending State: Belgium

Recommendation Noted

Remedy/Reparation Race/Ethnicity Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/17/9
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Myanmar

107.12. With regard to children, take necessary measures to improve the birth registry system, following the recommendation of the CRC in not identifying any ethnic or religious group in official documents which could allow discriminatory treatment; to avoid statelessness; to ban corporal...

107.12. With regard to children, take necessary measures to improve the birth registry system, following the recommendation of the CRC in not identifying any ethnic or religious group in official documents which could allow discriminatory treatment; to avoid statelessness; to ban corporal punishment in families and schools and other institutions, by organizing educational campaigns; and start reforms in the juvenile justice system, following the Convention and the international standards by increasing the age of criminal responsibility. 

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Noted

Birth registration
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/17/9
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Namibia

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

98.18. 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/17/14
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Oman

90.34. Amend its Nationality Law to enable women the legal right to transmit Omani citizenship to their children. 

90.34. Amend its Nationality Law to enable women the legal right to transmit Omani citizenship to their children. 

Recommending State: United States of America

Recommendation Accepted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/17/7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Oman

91.2. Deepen its efforts to eliminate discrimination against women and respect the rights of the child by reforming the Nationality Law to enable Omani mothers to transmit their nationality to their children, regardless of the nationality of their father. 

91.2. Deepen its efforts to eliminate discrimination against women and respect the rights of the child by reforming the Nationality Law to enable Omani mothers to transmit their nationality to their children, regardless of the nationality of their father. 

Recommending State: France

Recommendation Noted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/17/7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

Oman

90.13. Ratify ICCPR and its two Optional Protocols, ICESCR and its Optional Protocols, CAT, the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its Protocol, the Convention relating to the Status of...

90.13. Ratify ICCPR and its two Optional Protocols, ICESCR and its Optional Protocols, CAT, the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its Protocol, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Accepted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/17/7
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Bangladesh

25. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (2009), entitling a Bangladeshi woman to transmit citizenship to her children but it remains concerned that the spouse of a Bangladeshi woman can apply for citizenship after being a resident in the country for five...

25. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (2009), entitling a Bangladeshi woman to transmit citizenship to her children but it remains concerned that the spouse of a Bangladeshi woman can apply for citizenship after being a resident in the country for five years, whereas the residential requirement for a foreign woman married to a Bangladeshi man is two years only.

26. The Committee urges the State party to amend its legislation on citizenship in order to bring it into full compliance with article 9 of the Convention.

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/BGD/CO/7