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Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Iran

39. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that persons with disabilities belonging to ethnic, linguistic and/or religious minorities, including those living in rural and remote areas, have access to identity documents and can access services and obtain protection of their...

39. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that persons with disabilities belonging to ethnic, linguistic and/or religious minorities, including those living in rural and remote areas, have access to identity documents and can access services and obtain protection of their rights under the Convention.

Nationality/Identity documentation
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Doc. CRPD/C/IRN/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Armenia

30. The Committee recommends that the State party take all measures necessary to ensure that persons with disabilities can obtain passports and identity cards on an equal basis with others, including by providing reasonable accommodation to facilitate access to public offices and passport...

30. The Committee recommends that the State party take all measures necessary to ensure that persons with disabilities can obtain passports and identity cards on an equal basis with others, including by providing reasonable accommodation to facilitate access to public offices and passport delivery procedures.

Nationality/Identity documentation
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Doc. CRPD/C/ARM/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Cyprus

16. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (d) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and endorse the 2016 Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.

16. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(...)

(d) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and endorse the 2016 Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action.

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRPD/C/CYP/CO/1
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Italy

22. The Committee is concerned that most stateless persons, mainly Roma and third-country nationals, remain stateless owing to the complicated statelessness determination procedures, which put children at a high risk of inheriting the stateless status of their parents, despite the...

22. The Committee is concerned that most stateless persons, mainly Roma and third-country nationals, remain stateless owing to the complicated statelessness determination procedures, which put children at a high risk of inheriting the stateless status of their parents, despite the legislative guarantee of Italian citizenship to those children born in Italy. It is also concerned about the slow progress in adopting legislation to address these issues (arts. 2 and 24).

23. The State party should take the measures necessary to simplify the statelessness determination procedures, reform the citizenship law and expedite the adoption of appropriate legislation designed to reduce statelessness.

Identification and determination procedures Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CCPR/C/ITA/CO/6
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Thailand

12. The State party should ensure full protection against discrimination and in particular, consider amending the Gender Equality Act (2015) to eliminate any limitation on the protection against gender-based discrimination. The State party should intensify measures to ensure that lesbian,...

12. The State party should ensure full protection against discrimination and in particular, consider amending the Gender Equality Act (2015) to eliminate any limitation on the protection against gender-based discrimination. The State party should intensify measures to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, indigenous and stateless people and migrants do not suffer from discrimination and violence.

42. The State party should strengthen its efforts to reduce statelessness and, in particular:

       (a)           Ensure that rural and isolated populations are informed of and have access to the procedures relating to the acquisition of nationality;

       (b)           Ensure the promotion and protection of rights of stateless persons and provide primary education to children and protection against trafficking.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Access to nationality/Naturalization Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Statelessness Doc. CCPR/C/THA/CO/2

Angola

112. Extend the free birth registration campaign to cover all foreigners born in Angola, including undocumented migrants and refugees, in order to ensure that they are guaranteed access to economic, social and cultural rights without discrimination.

112. Extend the free birth registration campaign to cover all foreigners born in Angola, including undocumented migrants and refugees, in order to ensure that they are guaranteed access to economic, social and cultural rights without discrimination.

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/35/25/Add.1

Australia

117.  Adopt  all  necessary  measures  to  ensure  that  stateless  persons  whose  asylum claims  are  refused  and  refugees  with  adverse  security  or  character  assessments are not held in detention indefinitely, including by resorting to non-custodial alternatives to detention.  

117.  Adopt  all  necessary  measures  to  ensure  that  stateless  persons  whose  asylum claims  are  refused  and  refugees  with  adverse  security  or  character  assessments are not held in detention indefinitely, including by resorting to non-custodial alternatives to detention.  

Detention
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/35/25/Add.3

Australia

117.  Adopt  all  necessary  measures  to  ensure  that  stateless  persons  whose  asylum claims  are  refused  and  refugees  with  adverse  security  or  character  assessments are not held in detention indefinitely, including by resorting to non-custodial alternatives to detention.  

117.  Adopt  all  necessary  measures  to  ensure  that  stateless  persons  whose  asylum claims  are  refused  and  refugees  with  adverse  security  or  character  assessments are not held in detention indefinitely, including by resorting to non-custodial alternatives to detention.  

Detention
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/35/25/Add.3

Kuwait

5. (...) Kuwait is home to a stateless population of 93,000 persons known as “bidoons”, who fall into three broad categories: (a) those whose ancestors failed to apply for nationality or lacked the necessary documentation when Kuwait gained independence in 1961; (b) those recruited to work...

5. (...) Kuwait is home to a stateless population of 93,000 persons known as “bidoons”, who fall into three broad categories: (a) those whose ancestors failed to apply for nationality or lacked the necessary documentation when Kuwait gained independence in 1961; (b) those recruited to work in the Kuwaiti army or police force during the 1960s, who settled permanently in Kuwait, along with their families; and (c) children of Kuwaiti mothers and stateless or foreign fathers.

24. Refugees and stateless persons are also at risk of trafficking in persons. They are affected by the absence of specific frameworks and considerations of their circumstances, as well as the current immigration policies. 

86.  On the basis of the above findings, and in a spirit of cooperation and dialogue, the Special Rapporteur offers the following recommendations to Kuwait: 

(a)  Ratify without delay [...] the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness [...].  

87.  With regard to the national framework: 

(b)  Enforce labour regulations in order to provide greater protection to migrant workers, including domestic workers, as well as refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons (bidoons) seeking employment, in accordance with international legal standards.

88. With regard to identification, training and capacity-building: 

(a)  Urgently establish standard operating procedures for the identification of all forms of trafficking and referral of victims, defining indicators to look out for while screening  vulnerable persons, including Kuwaitis, undocumented migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons.

91.  With regard to prevention: 

(d) Consider opening up the labour market to refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons in order to prevent the labour and sexual exploitation of those vulnerable groups.  

 

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/35/37/Add.1

Argentina

47.  Although Argentina recognizes a certain number of indigenous communities, the Nivaclé claim that they have been denied recognition and therefore cannot have access to national identification cards, which in turn keeps them from gaining access to public services in the province of...

47.  Although Argentina recognizes a certain number of indigenous communities, the Nivaclé claim that they have been denied recognition and therefore cannot have access to national identification cards, which in turn keeps them from gaining access to public services in the province of Formosa. 

104. The Special Rapporteur understands that Nivaclés are a people also present in Paraguay, bordering the province of Formosa, and suggests that the State further investigate the claims of the Nivaclé in Argentina in an effort to prevent statelessness. 

 

Nationality/Identity documentation
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/35/41/Add.1