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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Sao Tome and Principe

30. The Committee urges the State party to take further measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth and that the national legislation regulating birth registration is in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Convention, including by: (a) Ensuring...

30. The Committee urges the State party to take further measures to ensure that all children are registered immediately after birth and that the national legislation regulating birth registration is in accordance with the provisions of article 7 of the Convention, including by:
(a) Ensuring adequate staffing to register all babies, including those born on weekends;
(b) Ensuring that birth registration and the issuance of birth certificates are provided free of charge in practice;
(c) Providing adequate and accessible mechanisms to enforce free birth registration and to report on officials seeking informal fees for birth registration, and imposing commensurate sanctions on perpetrators;
(d) Abolishing fines for late birth registrations and allowing for birth certificates to be issued up to the age of 18 years.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/STP/CO/2-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Kuwait

36. In the light of its recommendation of 1998 (CRC/C/15/Add.96, para. 20) and those of other treaty bodies, the Committee urges the State party to abide by its obligation to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered at birth and acquire a...

36. In the light of its recommendation of 1998 (CRC/C/15/Add.96, para. 20) and those of other treaty bodies, the Committee urges the State party to abide by its obligation to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered at birth and acquire a nationality, irrespective of the child’s or his or her parents’ or legal guardians’ sex, race, religion or ethnicity, social origin or status. The Committee urges the State party to take immediate action to:

(a) Ensure gender equality in the 1959 Nationality Act in order for all children born to a Kuwaiti mother and non-Kuwaiti father to automatically acquire their mother’s nationality;
(...) 
(c) Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

Birth registration Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/KWT/CO/2
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Tajikistan

32. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...) (d) Take the measures necessary to address the statelessness of women and children in the State party, including through amendment and enactment of relevant legislation, as well as through compulsory birth registration; (e) Ratify the...

32. The Committee recommends that the State party: (...)

(d) Take the measures necessary to address the statelessness of women and children in the State party, including through amendment and enactment of relevant legislation, as well as through compulsory birth registration;
(e) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TJK/CO/4-5
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Benin

25. The Committee recommends that the State party amend Act No. 65-17 of 23 June 1965 on nationality with a view to granting Beninese women equal rights with Beninese men regarding the retention or loss of their nationality, in addition to the transmission of Beninese nationality to their...

25. The Committee recommends that the State party amend Act No. 65-17 of 23 June 1965 on nationality with a view to granting Beninese women equal rights with Beninese men regarding the retention or loss of their nationality, in addition to the transmission of Beninese nationality to their foreign spouses. The Committee also calls upon the State party to increase its efforts to facilitate access to birth registration services for all women, especially for poor and rural women who do not give birth in a health facility, and to consider establishing a monitoring mechanism to ensure the enforcement of its regulatory framework in remote and rural areas.

Birth registration Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/BEN/CO/4
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Burkina Faso

29. The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and provided with personal identity documents in accordance with article 29 of the Convention, and encourages the State party to relaunch the free...

29. The Committee recommends that the State party step up its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and provided with personal identity documents in accordance with article 29 of the Convention, and encourages the State party to relaunch the free birth registration campaign if at all possible. The Committee also recommends that the State party continue to facilitate the presence of the civil registry services in maternity wards, particularly in rural areas, and to raise the awareness of migrant workers and members of their families, particularly those in an irregular situation, of the importance of birth registration.

41. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the identity cards issued to refugees are fully recognized in the State party and urges it to take all appropriate measures to regularize the situation of migrant workers and members of their families who are in an irregular situation, to avoid them remaining in that situation for an extended period and to ensure that they have effective access to information on the procedures in force for the regularization of their situation.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CMW/C/BFA/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

El Salvador

40. The Committee calls on the State party to ensure that children with disabilities are entered in the civil registry at birth.

40. The Committee calls on the State party to ensure that children with disabilities are entered in the civil registry at birth.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRPD/C/SLV/CO/1
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Morocco

34. The Committee recommends that the State party take adequate measures to end the abuse and violations to which migrant workers and members of their families are subjected. Specifically, it urges the State party to establish a mechanism for monitoring the activities of the Moroccan...

34. The Committee recommends that the State party take adequate measures to end the abuse and violations to which migrant workers and members of their families are subjected. Specifically, it urges the State party to establish a mechanism for monitoring the activities of the Moroccan authorities responsible for or involved in migration procedures so as to ensure that abuses and violations committed against migrant workers and their family members, such as the confiscation and destruction of their identity documents, are the subject of inquiries and that those responsible are prosecuted and punished in accordance with article 21 of the Convention.

38. The Committee recommends that the State party take the measures necessary to ensure that all children of migrant workers, including those in an irregular situation, are registered when born.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CMW/C/MAR/CO/1
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Belarus

16. (...) In light of its general recommendation 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma, the Committee requests the State party to provide further information on measures taken to ensure that members of the Roma community are not discriminated against and that they have equal access to...

16. (...) In light of its general recommendation 27 (2000) on discrimination against Roma, the Committee requests the State party to provide further information on measures taken to ensure that members of the Roma community are not discriminated against and that they have equal access to education at all levels, employment, including in the State sector, housing, identity documents, access to public places, social and other services, and that there is no negative stereotyping of Roma in the media. (...) 

19. Bearing in mind the indivisibility of all human rights, the Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying those international human rights treaties which it has not yet ratified, in particular treaties the provisions of which have a direct bearing on racial discrimination, such as (...) the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Nationality/Identity documentation International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/BLR/CO/18-19
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Cyprus

18. The Committee notes with concern that naturalization requests, including by persons of South-East Asian origin, whose situations meet the State party’s legal requirements for naturalization eligibility have sometimes been denied (art. 5). The Committee recommends that the State party...

18. The Committee notes with concern that naturalization requests, including by persons of South-East Asian origin, whose situations meet the State party’s legal requirements for naturalization eligibility have sometimes been denied (art. 5).

The Committee recommends that the State party respect the right to nationality without discrimination and ensure that no particular groups of non-citizens are discriminated against with regard to access to naturalization. The Committee requests the State party to include in its next periodic report statistical data on naturalization requests and decisions thereon disaggregated by ethnic group, sex, length of residence in the State party, and any other relevant criteria. The Committee also requests the State party to include in its next periodic report information on how nationality laws and regulations are applied to those who are in the occupied territories.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Discrimination - Other Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Doc. CERD/C/CYP/CO/17-22
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Burkina Faso

10. (...) The Committee, recalling its general recommendations Nos. 22 (1996) on article 5 and refugees and displaced persons and 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, recommends that the State party take measures to ensure that child refugees are registered free of charge and...

10. (...) The Committee, recalling its general recommendations Nos. 22 (1996) on article 5 and refugees and displaced persons and 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, recommends that the State party take measures to ensure that child refugees are registered free of charge and issued with birth certificates. To this end, the Committee recommends that the State party improve refugees’ access to registry offices and continue to conduct awareness campaigns for parents in camps, to inform them of their right to register their children. (...) 

Birth registration
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Doc. CERD/C/BFA/CO/12-19