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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Haiti

115.22 Ratify the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

115.22 Ratify the Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Recommending State: Belgium

Recommendation Accepted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Haiti

117.33 Implement policies to guarantee the rights of displaced persons, particularly following natural disasters, as well as of those persons expelled from a third country who risk statelessness.   

117.33 Implement policies to guarantee the rights of displaced persons, particularly following natural disasters, as well as of those persons expelled from a third country who risk statelessness. 

 

Recommending State: Switzerland

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Haiti

115.129 Consider a reform of the civil registration system guaranteeing the rights of all Haitians, including those living abroad. 

115.129 Consider a reform of the civil registration system guaranteeing
the rights of all Haitians, including those living abroad. 

Recommending State: France

Recommendation Accepted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Haiti

115.132 Continue measures to close gaps in birth and civil registration.   

115.132 Continue measures to close gaps in birth and civil registration. 

 

Recommending State: The Bahamas

Recommendation Accepted

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Iceland

115.19 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

115.19 Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Recommending State: Mozambique

Recommendation Accepted

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Mauritania

38. Repatriated Mauritanians who fled or were forcefully expelled during the humanitarian crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s face similar difficulties. Many have not obtained personal documents (i.e. birth, marriage or death certificate personal identification cards and travel...

38. Repatriated Mauritanians who fled or were forcefully expelled during the humanitarian crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s face similar difficulties. Many have not obtained personal documents (i.e. birth, marriage or death certificate personal identification cards and travel documents), a task that is particularly difficult to carry out if their documents were confiscated prior to expulsion. Consequently, of the 24,000 returnees, only around 8,000 have obtained official documents identifying them as Mauritanians; the  others continue to face great difficulties in accessing State services like education and health care and in registering to vote, and are excluded from national censuses. Without identity documents, many repatriated persons are at risk of becoming stateless.  

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Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Morocco

13. The Committee welcomes the recognition of the principle of equality in the Constitution of 2011 but is still concerned, however, about: (a) the continued existence of legislative provisions that discriminate against women, particularly as regards a matrimonial regime that continues to...

13. The Committee welcomes the recognition of the principle of equality in the Constitution of 2011 but is still concerned, however, about: (a) the continued existence of legislative provisions that discriminate against women, particularly as regards a matrimonial regime that continues to permit polygamy, divorce, child custody, legal guardianship of children, inheritance and the transmission of nationality to a foreign spouse; (...) (arts. 2, 3, 23, 24 and 26).

14. The State party should: (a) repeal or amend all provisions that discriminate against women in order to give full effect to the principle of equality enshrined in the Constitution; (...).

36. (...) (f) remove legal barriers to the registration of newborns and the recognition of marriages among refugees and asylum seekers, revise the Nationality Code of 2007 so that nationality may be transmitted to all children born in Morocco, consider ratifying the 1954 and 1961 conventions on statelessness and establish a legal framework that will prevent statelessness.

 

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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Bangladesh

13. In line with its general recommendation No. 33 (2015) on women’s access to justice, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure that all women and girls, including stateless women, refugee women and women from ethnic minorities, have effective access to justice, by raising...

13. In line with its general recommendation No. 33 (2015) on women’s access to justice, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Ensure that all women and girls, including stateless women, refugee women and women from ethnic minorities, have effective access to justice, by raising their awareness of their human rights and the remedies available to claim them;

27. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure the effective implementation of its legislation on nationality, with a view to providing citizenship to all children born to a Bangladeshi parent and ensuring that such laws are applied retroactively to children born before the entry into force of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2009. The Committee also recommends that the State party ensure that all children born in its territory are registered immediately at birth and provided with access to basic services and encourages the State party to ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto.

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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/BGD/CO/8
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Burundi

32. The Committee reiterates its concern (CEDAW/C/BDI/CO/4, para. 29) that article 4 of the Nationality Code does not comply with article 9 of the Convention because it does not allow a Burundian woman married to a foreigner to transmit her nationality to her husband or children on the same...

32. The Committee reiterates its concern (CEDAW/C/BDI/CO/4, para. 29) that article 4 of the Nationality Code does not comply with article 9 of the Convention because it does not allow a Burundian woman married to a foreigner to transmit her nationality to her husband or children on the same basis as a Burundian man married to a foreigner. The Committee also notes with concern the discriminatory provision of the Code of the Person and the Family (art. 38), under which the registration of a child's birth can be effected only by the father, and by mothers in very specific cases. It further notes the high rates of unregistered births. 

33. The Committee reiterates its recommendation (CEDAW/C/BDI/CO/4, para. 30) that the State party amend the Nationality Code and the Code of the Person and the Family so as to bring them into line with article 9 of the Convention and ensure the registration of all births.

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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/BDI/CO/5-6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Honduras

31. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that all births are registered in the State party, including in rural areas, indigenous communities and in communities of African descent. It also recommends that the State party ensure that all children born in exceptional situations,...

31. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that all births are registered in the State party, including in rural areas, indigenous communities and in communities of African descent. It also recommends that the State party ensure that all children born in exceptional situations, including in a migration context or in border areas, are registered in the National Registry of Persons and provided with personal documents. It also recommends that the State party include a gender perspective in the mechanisms monitoring return processes for child migrants and their effect on family reunification.

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