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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

San Marino

22. Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004), the Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to combat discrimination against non-nationals, including migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons. In particular, it recommends that the State...

22. Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004), the Committee recommends that the State party take all necessary measures to combat discrimination against non-nationals, including migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons. In particular, it recommends that the State party:

(a) Amend Law No. 114/2000 on citizenship in order to remove the obligation for applicants to give up their existing citizenship and all other barriers to naturalization;


(b) Ratify the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;


(c) Provide disaggregated statistics on the number of migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons on the State party’s territory; (...)

(e) Put in place a specific and effective determination procedure for cases of statelessness;

Identification and determination procedures Access to nationality/Naturalization International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/SMR/CO/1
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Moldova

6. Recalling its 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...

6. Recalling its 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 comprehensive and disaggregated statistics on the demographic composition of the population, while respecting the principle of self-identification in the 2024 population census, together with statistics on the socioeconomic situation of ethnic minority groups, including Roma, and of non-citizens such as refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and stateless persons, and on their access to education, employment, health care and housing with a view to creating an empirical basis for assessing the equal enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Convention. (...)

30. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to resolve the remaining statelessness cases, including by developing and adopting a policy framework on combating statelessness to enable all stateless persons, without discrimination, to have their status ascertained and to obtain identity documents.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Lack of documents/Access to documentation Identification and determination procedures Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/MDA/CO/12-14
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Malta

123.232 Improve the registration of stateless persons through their inclusion in the national census and the training of officials; and amend the law to ensure that all children born on Maltese territory who would otherwise be stateless acquire a nationality as soon as possible after their...

123.232 Improve the registration of stateless persons through their inclusion in the national census and the training of officials; and amend the law to ensure that all children born on Maltese territory who would otherwise be stateless acquire a nationality as soon as possible after their birth.

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Noted

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Born on territory Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/56/17
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Niger

24. In line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25 (2004) on temporary special measures, the Committee recommends that the State party: (b) Adopt temporary special measures, such as targeted recruitment, hiring and promotion, public budgeting...

24. In line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25 (2004) on temporary special measures, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(b) Adopt temporary special measures, such as targeted recruitment, hiring and promotion, public budgeting and procurement and affirmative action, and establish time-bound targets, as a necessary strategy to accelerate the achievement of substantive equality between women and men in all areas covered by the Convention where women are underrepresented or disadvantaged, such as education, employment, heath care, conflict resolution, peacemaking processes, investment models and economic and social life, with particular attention given to internally displaced women, refugee, stateless and migrant women, women with disabilities, rural women and older women;

38. With reference to its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the genderrelated dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Adopt legislation to regulate statelessness determination procedures;

(b) Ensure that effective legal safeguards and remedies are available to stateless women and children awaiting deportation and ensure the effective protection and resilience of forcibly displaced persons and their peaceful coexistence with host communities;

(c) Collect data on stateless women and girls, disaggregated by age and ethnicity, and provide such data in its next periodic report, along with the results of the study on the situation of statelessness and the risk of statelessness.

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/NER/CO/5
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Bulgaria

5. Recalling its 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 produce statistics, disaggregated by sex and age,...

5. Recalling its 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 produce statistics, disaggregated by sex and age, on the socioeconomic situation of ethnic groups and foreign nationals, including migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons, in particular their access to education, employment, health care and housing, and on their participation in public and political life with a view to creating an empirical basis for assessing the equal enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Convention. (...)

25. Recalling its previous concluding observations and its general recommendation No. 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(b) Expedite the adoption of the necessary amendments to the Civil Registration Act to address the administrative shortcomings of the civil registry system with a view to remove legal and other barriers in obtaining identity cards and provide durable solutions to ensure that persons without identity documents can enjoy their basic rights under article 5 of the Convention;

29. The Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary measures:

(a) To establish a functional local integration mechanism for migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons in areas such as education, employment, housing, social assistance and health-care services, and adopt and implement in that regard a national strategy and action plan, which should include benchmarks, indicators of progress and a time frame for monitoring implementation;

(b) To prevent and address all forms of discrimination and xenophobia against migrants, refugees, stateless persons and asylum-seekers, ensure that law enforcement officials act in accordance with the Convention and international standards when forcibly removing foreigners, including by monitoring their activities and investigating, prosecuting and punishing the perpetrators of human rights abuses with appropriate penalties, and ensure access to effective remedies and reparations for victims;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Lack of documents/Access to documentation Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/BGR/CO/23-25
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

South Africa

5. Recalling its 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 reliable, updated and comprehensive...

5. Recalling its 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 reliable, updated and comprehensive statistics on the demographic composition of the population, in full respect of the principle of self-identification, particularly on Indigenous Peoples and non-citizens, including refugees, asylum-seekers, undocumented migrants and stateless persons, together with socioeconomic indicators, disaggregated by gender and age, and languages spoken, concerning access to education, employment, health care and housing with a view to creating an empirical basis for assessing the equal enjoyment of the rights enshrined in the Convention. (...)

41. Recalling its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(...)


(b) Ensure birth registration without discrimination, irrespective of whether mothers possess identity documents;


(...)


(d) Establish a dedicated and effective determination procedure in relation to statelessness;


(e) Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Birth registration International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/ZAF/CO/9-11
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Germany

140.24 Provide training to public officials on nationality and statelessness at all administrative levels, and make publicly available comprehensive national data to improve the protection of stateless persons in the country

140.24 Provide training to public officials on nationality and statelessness at all administrative levels, and make publicly available comprehensive national data to improve the protection of stateless persons in the country

Recommending State: Romania

Recommendation Accepted

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Protection/Enjoyment of rights Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/55/10
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Germany

140.25 Step up efforts to document and combat statelessness

140.25 Step up efforts to document and combat statelessness

Recommending State: Uzbekistan

Recommendation Accepted

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Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/55/10
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Cabo Verde

125.202 Adopt a national action plan to end statelessness that includes the collection of disaggregated information in the next census

125.202 Adopt a national action plan to end statelessness that includes the collection of disaggregated information in the next census

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/55/6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Uruguay

30. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Implement its statelessness determination procedure in line with articles 2 and 9 of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and...

30. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Implement its statelessness determination procedure in line with articles 2 and 9 of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, in order to expedite the naturalization of stateless women and girls in the State party;

(b) Raise public awareness and provide capacity-building to civil registrars on civil registration procedures aimed at granting nationality or residence permits to women and girls recognized as stateless;

(c) Collect data on stateless women and girls in the State party, disaggregated by age and ethnicity, and provide such data in its next periodic report.

Lack of documents/Access to documentation Identification and determination procedures Remedy/Reparation Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/URY/CO/10