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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Eswatini

109.34 Modify articles 43 and 44 of the Constitution so that Swazi women, in the same way as men, can transmit their nationality to their children and their foreign spouses. 

109.34 Modify articles 43 and 44 of the Constitution so that Swazi women, in the same way as men, can transmit their nationality to their children and their foreign spouses. 

Recommending State: Djibouti

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Eswatini

109.32 Enact legislation to ensure the ability of all Swazi citizens, regardless of their sex, to confer citizenship upon their children. 

109.32 Enact legislation to ensure the ability of all Swazi citizens, regardless of their sex, to confer citizenship upon their children. 

Recommending State: Australia

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Eswatini

109.35 Modify its national laws to ensure that mothers can pass on nationality to their offspring regardless of the nationality of the father. 

109.35 Modify its national laws to ensure that mothers can pass on nationality to their offspring regardless of the nationality of the father. 

Recommending State: Sierra Leone

Recommendation Noted

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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

United Kingdom

34. The Committee recommends that the State party encourage its overseas territories to revise the local legislation and the British Nationality Act in order to guarantee the right of migrant children, in particular those children born in the territories, to a birth certificate.

34. The Committee recommends that the State party encourage its overseas territories to revise the local legislation and the British Nationality Act in order to guarantee the right of migrant children, in particular those children born in the territories, to a birth certificate.

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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Samoa

29. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen its efforts to implement free and early birth registration procedures and to issue birth certificates and that it place a special focus on children in rural areas; (b) Improve the registration of births occurring outside...

29. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen its efforts to implement free and early birth registration procedures and to issue birth certificates and that it place a special focus on children in rural areas;

(b) Improve the registration of births occurring outside hospital facilities and consider the use of mobile birth registration teams to cover remote communities;

(c) Ensure the accuracy of registration details for babies born to young and unwed mothers;

(d) Develop strategies to change the social mindset and negative attitudes towards unwed mothers;

(e) Provide the financial, human and technical resources necessary to improve the efficiency of the new computerized registration system;

(f) Launch extensive awareness-raising programmes on the importance of birth registration and the process by which children are registered.

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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Pakistan

29. Taking note of target 16.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing a legal identity for all, including through birth registration, the Committee strongly urges the State party to: (a) Promote the timely registration of births, especially among marginalized and disadvantaged...

29. Taking note of target 16.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing a legal identity for all, including through birth registration, the Committee strongly urges the State party to:

(a) Promote the timely registration of births, especially among marginalized and disadvantaged communities, and educate the public at large about the consequences of non-registration;

(b) Remove all fees and simplify the procedures related to birth registration throughout the country, including through the introduction of mobile registration units;

(c) Undertake a survey to identify children lacking birth registration or identity documents and take immediate administrative and judicial measures to ensure retroactive birth registration and the issuance of documents for those children;

66. The Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to:

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(b) Ensure that all children born to refugees, including those who do not hold proof of registration cards, asylum seekers and stateless persons, are registered at birth;

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(e) Enforce legal measures against child and bonded labour involving refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless children;

(f) Prevent and protect refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless children from falling victim to early marriage, abuse, trafficking or religious radicalization;

(g) Ensure the equal implementation of its citizenship laws with a view to extending citizenship to Bengali, Bihari and Rohingya children;

(h) Consider ratifying the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, as well as the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Sudan

139.13 Establish effective measures to increase the registration of children and to obtain birth registration. 

139.13 Establish effective measures to increase the registration of children and to obtain birth registration. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

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Sudan

138.93 Continue efforts for the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents rights; expand the juvenile justice system and actions aimed to implement the mandatory birth registration; and for eradication of female genital mutilation. 

138.93 Continue efforts for the comprehensive protection of children and adolescents rights; expand the juvenile justice system and actions aimed to implement the mandatory birth registration; and for eradication of female genital mutilation. 

Recommending State: El Salvador

Recommendation Accepted

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Sudan

139.12 Further strengthen efforts towards birth registration for all, with a view to encouraging access to relevant procedures. 

139.12 Further strengthen efforts towards birth registration for all, with a view to encouraging access to relevant procedures. 

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Accepted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Greece

134.4 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

134.4 Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Ghana

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/33/7