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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Uzbekistan

5. (...) The State party should provide the Committee, in its next periodic report, with up-to-date statistics on the composition of its population, disaggregated by ethnicity, national origin and languages spoken, including data on migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons,...

5. (...) The State party should provide the Committee, in its next periodic report, with up-to-date statistics on the composition of its population, disaggregated by ethnicity, national origin and languages spoken, including data on migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons, as well as relevant socioeconomic indicators. (...)

13. (...) (c) Take immediate steps to ensure that all Luli/Roma have access to personal identity documents

20. (...) The Committee takes note that the amendment to the Citizenship Act of 23 September 2016 facilitated the granting of citizenship to stateless persons. However, the Committee remains concerned that the law requires stateless persons to prove a minimum means of subsistence. It is also concerned that the “acquisition” of stateless status requires such persons to renounce any other nationality before they can acquire citizenship of the State party, thus compelling persons of other nationalities to become stateless without the assurance that they will be able to acquire the nationality of the State party (art. 5).

21. (...) It also recommends that the State party adopt urgent measures to remove obstacles to granting citizenship and prevent persons from becoming stateless, in particular in the process of acquiring citizenship of the State party. The Committee reiterates its recommendation that the State party consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

23. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party take legislative and administrative measures to ensure that the public, in particular ethnic groups, asylum seekers and stateless persons, know their rights, including all legal remedies in the area of racial discrimination.

48. Bearing in mind the indivisibility of all human rights, the Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying those international human rights treaties that it has not yet ratified, in particular treaties with provisions that have direct relevance to communities that may be subjected to racial discrimination, including (...) the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Access to nationality/Naturalization Nationality/Identity documentation International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/UZB/CO/10-12
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Ireland

36. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (b) Implement the Data and Research Strategy 2018–2020 of the Department of Justice and Equality, and collect and report quantitative and qualitative data on refugees, beneficiaries of international protection, asylum seekers and...

36. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(...)

(b) Implement the Data and Research Strategy 2018–2020 of the Department of Justice and Equality, and collect and report quantitative and qualitative data on refugees, beneficiaries of international protection, asylum seekers and stateless persons;

(...)

(d) Establish a procedure for the determination of statelessness;

(...)

Identification and determination procedures Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/IRL/CO/5-9
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Mozambique

21. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee urges the State party: (a) To continue efforts to promote the timely registration of births, including through the introduction of registration facilities in all health-care centres, of mobile registration...

21. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee urges the State party:

(a) To continue efforts to promote the timely registration of births, including through the introduction of registration facilities in all health-care centres, of mobile registration units in rural and remote areas and of administrative measures to ensure retroactive birth registration and the issuance of documents for children who are not registered;

(b) To abolish all birth registration fees and ensure that all children, including children of unmarried parents, are properly registered at birth, including by raising awareness among the population to eliminate the stigmatization faced by children of unmarried parents and their mothers;

(c) To intensify its efforts to raise awareness among the general public, and among mothers and pregnant women in particular, of the importance of birth registration, including through community health programmes and campaigns in health-care centres;

(d) To take measures to determine the number of stateless children in the State party and, for example, the kinds of children who are stateless, why they are stateless and what legislation and policies prevent them from acquiring a nationality. 

Stateless Persons - Other Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/MOZ/CO/3-4
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Kazakhstan

34. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Revise the Code on Marriage and Family and relevant regulations to ensure that all children are registered at birth and are provided with birth registration certificates, regardless of their parents’ legal status or nationality; (b)...

34. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Revise the Code on Marriage and Family and relevant regulations to ensure that all children are registered at birth and are provided with birth registration certificates, regardless of their parents’ legal status or nationality;
(b) Review the law on citizenship and other relevant laws and regulations to allow for women to reacquire their nationality in cases of dissolution or non-occurrence of marriage and to lift the requirements of economic self-sufficiency or property ownership to acquire or reacquire nationality;
(c) Provide safeguards against the arbitrary deprivation of nationality with a view to preventing statelessness, including the right to lodge an appeal with suspensive effect and the availability of effective remedies, which should include the possibility of restoring nationality.

47. The Committee is concerned about reports that women with disabilities, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and intersex persons, refugee women, asylum-seeking women, stateless women and women with undetermined citizenship continue to experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.

48. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(c) With regard to asylum-seeking women, refugee women, stateless women and women with undetermined nationality:
(i) Provide asylum-seeking women, refugee women, stateless women and women with undetermined nationality, including those temporarily residing in the State party, with health insurance and basic health services, including prenatal and postnatal care, and ensure that they have access to employment, education and the registration of civil acts;

(iii) Accelerate the regularization of stateless women and women with undetermined nationality and their children;
(iv) Ensure the collection of data, disaggregated by age and gender, on stateless persons and persons with undetermined nationality;

(v) Accede to 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 Loss/Deprivation Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration Gender International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/KAZ/CO/5
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Iraq

34. The Committee recommends that the State party allocate the human, technical and financial resources necessary to continue its efforts to register all children with disabilities and to prevent their statelessness. 59. The Committee is concerned about the absence of systematic,...

34. The Committee recommends that the State party allocate the human, technical and financial resources necessary to continue its efforts to register all children with disabilities and to prevent their statelessness.

59. The Committee is concerned about the absence of systematic, disaggregated data on persons with disabilities across all sectors of the State party, including persons with disabilities who have been subjected to violence and persons with disabilities who are internally displaced, migrants, refugees, stateless and/or belong to minority groups. The Committee is also concerned about the insufficient information on the extent to which disability-related indicators are effectively applied in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

60. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Take into consideration the short set of questions of the United Nations Children’s Fund/Washington Group on Disability Statistics module on child functioning in preparing the next national census, planned for 2020, and in the national survey on disability;
(b) Apply disability-related indicators in monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially target 17.18;
(c) Increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by socioeconomic status, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant to its national context, and strengthen the capacity and resources of the Central Statistical Organization of the Ministry of Planning (in its implementation of art. 15 (9) of Law No. 38 (2013)) and the Kurdistan Region Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs for the collection, management, analysis and dissemination of statistics and data concerning persons with disabilities.

Birth registration Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Kuwait

11. The Committee recalls its general comment No. 6 (2018) on equality and nondiscrimination and recommends that the State party: (...) (b) Ensure that equality and non-discrimination provisions apply to all persons with disabilities within its territory, including non-Kuwaiti nationals and...

11. The Committee recalls its general comment No. 6 (2018) on equality and nondiscrimination and recommends that the State party:
(...) (b) Ensure that equality and non-discrimination provisions apply to all persons with disabilities within its territory, including non-Kuwaiti nationals and stateless persons (Bidoon), and review its legislation, including Act No. 8/2010 and the Nationality Act accordingly;

15. (...) (e) Strengthening the collection of disaggregated data on children with disabilities, including Bidoon children with disabilities, with a view to developing appropriate public policies in all areas of the Convention;

37. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (b) Ensure that all Bidoons with disabilities, including children, enjoy the right to acquire a nationality and that they are registered immediately after birth, have access to services and are able to exercise the rights under the Convention.

45. (...) (b) Ensure support to parents with disabilities and to families of children with disabilities, including Bidoon families, families of Kuwaiti women married to non-Kuwaiti nationals and non-Kuwaiti families, and ensure access to inclusive community-based services and alternative care in family settings for all children with disabilities, regardless of their origins.

47. Recalling its general comment No. 4 (2016) on the right to inclusive education, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Adopt the necessary legal and other measures to ensure the right of all children with disabilities, including non-Kuwaiti and Bidoon children with disabilities, to free, quality and inclusive education at all levels of education;

49. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure that all persons with disabilities, including Bidoon and nonKuwaiti children with disabilities, can access health-care services, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, throughout the State party;

55. Recalling its general comment No. 5 (2017) on living independently and being included in the community, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Review its social protection scheme to ensure that all persons with disabilities, including non-Kuwaitis and Bidoon with disabilities, can access it, that funding for independent living, including disability allocations, is controlled and allocated to persons with disabilities and that benefits are preserved for those in education and employment in order to promote independence, inclusion and participation;
(b) Ensure the systematic collection of up-to-date and appropriately disaggregated data, including statistical and research data, on the situation of Bidoon with disabilities, including data on the prevalence of poverty and on access to housing, social protection and poverty reduction programmes;

61. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Systematically collect, analyse and disseminate data, disaggregated by gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, disability, socioeconomic status, employment and place of residence, on the fulfilment of the rights of all persons with disabilities, including non-Kuwaitis and Bidoon with disabilities, in all areas of the Convention;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Birth registration Race/Ethnicity Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRPD/C/KWT/CO/1
Voluntary Pledges

Armenia

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To review the national legislation on Nationalities (“Citizenship”) to establish legal grounds for decreasing the number of stateless persons and ensure proper mechanisms for guaranteeing the...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To review the national legislation on Nationalities (“Citizenship”) to establish legal grounds for decreasing the number of stateless persons and ensure proper mechanisms for guaranteeing the exercise of their rights. [Year of Completion: 2024]

The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To conduct a comprehensive study on the status of stateless persons in order to reveal the gaps in the sphere, to map issues and to make suggestions on addressing the main challenges of the field. [Y.o.C. 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Armenia hereby commits: To further amend the provisions of the national legislation on Nationalities (“Citizenship”) that may cause statelessness (i.e. pursuing the legislative initiative to amend the citizenship law for putting safeguards during renunciation process). [Y.o.C. 2020]

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness
Voluntary Pledges

Belarus

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to implement a project aiming at providing assistance to vulnerable categories of stateless persons willing to acquire the citizenship of the Republic of Belarus and regularize their status in...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to implement a project aiming at providing assistance to vulnerable categories of stateless persons willing to acquire the citizenship of the Republic of Belarus and regularize their status in the territory of Belarus. [Year of Completion 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on Reduction of Statelessness after finalizing all relevant internal proceedings. [Y.o.C. 2020]

The Government of the Republic of Belarus hereby commits to include a statelessness-related question into the 2019 census of the population of the Republic of Belarus. [Y.o.C. 2020]

Remedy/Reparation International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness
Voluntary Pledges

Bulgaria

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to initiate the procedure under national law to withdraw the reservation imposed by the Republic of Bulgaria with regard to Article 31 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to initiate the procedure under national law to withdraw the reservation imposed by the Republic of Bulgaria with regard to Article 31 of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. [Year of Completion 2021]

The Government of Bulgaria hereby commits to a regular review of the relevance of the reservations imposed by Bulgaria in 2011 to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. [Year of Completion 2022]

The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to take action to improve the procedure to grant statelessness status and to consider the necessity of introducing a quality assessment mechanism for this procedure. [Year of Completion 2023]

The Government of the Republic of Bulgaria hereby commits to include stateless persons among persons subject to the National census 2021. [Year of Completion 2021]

Identification and determination procedures International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness
Voluntary Pledges

Lithuania

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness The Government of the Republic of Lithuania hereby commits to amend the Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania and ensure that citizenship of Lithuania is granted to children born on the territory of Lithuania if their parents are stateless...

UNHCR High-Level Segment on Statelessness

The Government of the Republic of Lithuania hereby commits to amend the Law on Citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania and ensure that citizenship of Lithuania is granted to children born on the territory of Lithuania if their parents are stateless persons holding a residence permit, either permanent or temporary. [Year of Completion 2024]

The Government of the Republic of Lithuania hereby commits to assess whether the absence of dedicated legal provisions for determination of statelessness poses problems to any-one in practice. [Y.o.C. 2024]

The Government of the Republic of Lithuania hereby commits to carry out an analysis in every single case in order to clarify why stateless persons are not applying for citizenship of the Republic of Lithuania, even if they are eligible. [Y.o.C. 2024]

Born on territory Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness