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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Qatar

26. The Committee recalls its previous concluding observations and urges the State party to: (a) Amend the Nationality Act and the Law on Permanent Residency to allow Qatari women married to noncitizens to transmit without discrimination their nationality to their children from birth, in...

26. The Committee recalls its previous concluding observations and urges the State party to:

(a) Amend the Nationality Act and the Law on Permanent Residency to allow Qatari women married to noncitizens to transmit without discrimination their nationality to their children from birth, in particular for those children who would otherwise be stateless;

(b) Ensure that children born to unmarried parents receive a birth certificate and other identity documents and that children born to non-Qatari are not deported or separated from their mothers;

(c) Resolve the stateless status of members of the Al-Ghufran clan, particularly children, by providing a clear path to Qatari citizenship and access to education and healthcare;

(d) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961;

(e) Seek technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) among others, for the implementation of these recommendations.

35. Recalling its general comment No. 9 (2006) on the rights of children with disabilities, the Committee recalls its previous concluding observations 16 and recommends the State party adopt a human rights-based approach to disability, set up a comprehensive strategy for the inclusion of children with disabilities and:

(b) Enable all children with disabilities living in the State party, including children with disabilities who do not possess Qatari nationality and those who are stateless, to claim and have access to their rights without discrimination, in accordance with the human rights-based approach to disability, and protect them from all forms of disability-based discrimination;

47. Recalling the joint general comments No. 3 and No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families/No. 22 and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017) on the human rights of children in the context of international migration and its General Comment No. 6 (2005) on treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(f) Consider ratifying the 1951 Convention relating to the Statues of Refugees, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Gender Race/Ethnicity International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Implementing measures - Other
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/QAT/CO/5-6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Iran

38.342 Ensure that children of Iranian mothers married to undocumented migrants or refugees automatically acquire their nationality. 

38.342 Ensure that children of Iranian mothers married to undocumented migrants or refugees automatically acquire their nationality. 

Recommending State: Colombia

Recommendation Noted

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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Nepal

35. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, and its previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/NPL/CO/6, para. 31), the Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Accelerate the adoption...

35. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, and its previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/NPL/CO/6, para. 31), the Committee recommends that the State Party:

(a) Accelerate the adoption of the citizenship bill and ensure that it addresses all types of discrimination against Nepali women and their children;

(b) Repeal articles 11 (5) and 11 (7) of the Constitution that prevent Nepali women from transferring citizenship on an equal basis with men to their children, recognizing the independent right of each parent to transfer citizenship by descent;

(c) Amend article 11 (3) of the Constitution to allow for birth registration by the “father or mother”, rather than the “father and mother”, with a view to preventing statelessness;

(d) Amend article 11 (6) of the Constitution to ensure that Nepali women have the right to transfer citizenship to their spouse on the same terms as Nepali men and remove the requirement of self-declaration and penalties for Nepali mothers to transfer citizenship to their children with unidentified fathers;

(e) Ensure universal birth registration for all children regardless of the legal status of their parents, including for children of stateless women, refugees, migrant women and women sex workers, in line with the Constitution and the State Party’s international human rights obligations;

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

58. The Committee requests the State Party to provide, within two years, written information on the steps taken to implement the recommendations contained in paragraphs 35 (b) and 35 (c) on nationality, and 53 (c) and 53 (e) on marriage and family relations.

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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/NPL/CO/7
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Sri Lanka

35. The Committee notes with concern that: (b) The requirement that women with children under two years of age who are seeking overseas employment provide a report on their family background may compel such women to migrate through irregular channels, forcing them to use tourist visas,...

35. The Committee notes with concern that:

(b) The requirement that women with children under two years of age who are seeking overseas employment provide a report on their family background may compel such women to migrate through irregular channels, forcing them to use tourist visas, unauthorized agents or falsified documents when they are unable to obtain official approval, which places them and their children at risk of statelessness and exploitation;

36. In line with article 9 of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendations No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women and No. 26 (2008) on women migrant workers, the Committee recommends that the State Party:

(a) Amend, without delay, the Citizenship Act to ensure that women and men have equal rights with respect to acquiring, transferring, retaining and changing their nationality, and to conferring their nationality on their children, regardless of their marital status or the nationality of their spouse;

(b) Abolish the discriminatory requirement that women with children under two years of age provide a report on their family background, and ensure that women and men have equal rights with respect to seeking employment abroad;

(c) Review and revise procedures for maintaining and recovering Sri Lankan nationality to eliminate discriminatory barriers faced by women who have acquired foreign nationality through marriage abroad, in particular in cases of divorce or widowhood, and ensure that such women have equal access to expedited procedures for nationality retention or restoration, including by (i) simplifying documentary requirements and eliminating additional procedural barriers not imposed on men; (ii) establishing clear guidelines and training for consular and immigration officials on the equal nationality rights of women and men; and (iii) providing legal aid and support services to women seeking to maintain or recover their nationality;

(d) Accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

38. The Committee recommends that the State Party eliminate administrative and practical barriers that prevent disadvantaged groups of women from obtaining national identity cards and other essential documentation by establishing mobile registration units with multilingual staff, accepting alternative forms of proof of identity and residence, implementing simplified procedures for women facing multiple forms of discrimination and providing free legal aid and documentation services for economically disadvant aged women.

Loss/Deprivation (Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/LKA/CO/9
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Republic of the Congo

32. The Committee recommends that the State Party: (a) Strengthen efforts to promote and ensure birth registration, particularly in rural areas and among Indigenous women and girls, through such measures as providing incentives for birth registration and conducting awareness-raising on the...

32. The Committee recommends that the State Party:

(a) Strengthen efforts to promote and ensure birth registration, particularly in rural areas and among Indigenous women and girls, through such measures as providing incentives for birth registration and conducting awareness-raising on the importance of birth registration, in collaboration with local and traditional leaders and grass-roots civil society organizations;

(b) Collect and standardize the collection of data on birth registration, disaggregated by sex, age, region and other relevant characteristics, and establish mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating awareness-raising and capacity-building efforts;

(c) Accelerate efforts to amend the Nationality Law to ensure that Congolese women have the right to transfer their nationality to their foreign spouses, on an equal basis with Congolese men.

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Doc. CEDAW/C/COG/CO/8
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Brunei Darussalam

124.245 Review the Nationality Law to allow women to transfer nationality to their children under the same conditions as men, in order to remove legal barriers to gender equality and reduce statelessness.

124.245 Review the Nationality Law to allow women to transfer nationality to their children under the same conditions as men, in order to remove legal barriers to gender equality and reduce statelessness.

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/58/12
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Saudi Arabia

6. Recalling its previous recommendations, general recommendation No. 8 (1990) concerning the interpretation and application of article 1 (1) and (4) of the Convention, and its guidelines for reporting under the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party collect and provide to...

6. Recalling its previous recommendations, general recommendation No. 8 (1990) concerning the interpretation and application of article 1 (1) and (4) of the Convention, and its guidelines for reporting under the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party collect and provide to the Committee reliable, updated and comprehensive statistics on the demographic composition of the population, based on the principle of self-identification, including on ethno-religious groups, people of African descent, stateless persons and non-citizens, particularly undocumented migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees. It also recommends that the State party produce disaggregated statistics on the socioeconomic situation of ethno-religious minority groups, people of African descent and non-citizens and on their access to education, employment, healthcare and housing, with a view to creating an empirical basis for assessing the equal enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Convention.

17.(...) the Committee is concerned about the lack of detailed and disaggregated information on complaints of racial discrimination, investigations, prosecutions, and convictions and sanctions by domestic courts.

18. Recalling its general recommendation No. 31 (2005) on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system, the Committee recommends that the State party: (...)

(b) Undertake public education campaigns on the rights enshrined in the
Convention and on how to file complaints of racial discrimination, particularly in order to inform ethno-religious minority groups, people of African descent, migrants, asylum-seekers and stateless persons; (...)

19 (...) the Committee is concerned:

(...)

(b) That the criminalization of hate speech and hate crime under the legislative framework is based on vague concepts, such as “undermining public order” or “contradicts public morals”, and that the criminalization of hate speech and hate crimes only applies when nationals are the victims of it, excluding groups vulnerable to racial discrimination such as migrants and stateless persons;


(c) About reports of the spread of racist hate speech and the dissemination of negative stereotypes against ethno-religious minority groups, people of African descent, migrants and stateless persons, including on the Internet and social media;

32. Reiterating its previous recommendations, and recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State party review and amend its legislative framework, in particular the Law on Nationality, to allow Saudi women married to non-Saudi citizens to transmit their nationality to their children from birth, on an equal footing with Saudi men.

34. Recalling its general recommendation No. 25 (2000) on gender-related
dimensions of racial discrimination, and reiterating its previous  recommendations, the Committee recommends that the State party review its legislative and policy frameworks to eliminate all barriers and restrictions faced by women belonging to ethno-religious minority groups, women of African descent, women migrant workers, women domestic workers, women human rights defenders and activists, women in detention and migrant and stateless women, and ensure their equal access to employment, education, healthcare and justice. To this end, it recommends that the State party incorporate a minority women perspective into all gender-related policies and strategies.

45. The Committee is concerned about the lack of statistics on stateless persons (Bidoon) and their socioeconomic situation, and about reports of discrimination faced by the Bidoon in access to employment, education, healthcare and other basic services. It is concerned about the lack of a dedicated determination procedure in relation to statelessness.

46. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt measures to reduce and prevent statelessness and to establish a dedicated and effective determination procedure in relation to statelessness. It also recommends that the State party ensure that stateless persons, particularly the Bidoon, enjoy all human rights without discrimination, including access to work, housing, education and healthcare.

51. (...) The Committee encourages the State party to accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/SAU/CO/10-11
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Brunei Darussalam

124.40 Withdraws its reservation to article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

124.40 Withdraws its reservation to article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Recommending State: Spain

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Brunei Darussalam

124.40 Withdraws its reservation to article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

124.40 Withdraws its reservation to article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Recommending State: United Kingdom

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Brunei Darussalam

124.242 Consider amending the Brunei Nationality Act to ensure that women have equal nationality rights as men, in particular in relation to the acquisition and retention of their own nationality, and the conferral of their nationality on their children and non-national spouses.

124.242 Consider amending the Brunei Nationality Act to ensure that women have equal nationality rights as men, in particular in relation to the acquisition and retention of their own nationality, and the conferral of their nationality on their children and non-national spouses.

Recommending State: Malta

Recommendation Noted

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