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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Azerbaijan

9. While appreciating the State party’s efforts to improve the situation of the large number of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), asylum seekers and stateless persons, the Committee is concerned that many of them are still living in sub-standard conditions and that they are not...

9. While appreciating the State party’s efforts to improve the situation of the large number of refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), asylum seekers and stateless persons, the Committee is concerned that many of them are still living in sub-standard conditions and that they are not fully enjoying their economic, social and cultural rights, in particular access to health care, adequate housing and legal employment. (art. 2)

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The Committee also recommends that the State party implement a status determination procedure to identify stateless persons in the country and to grant them a legal status which would improve their enjoyment of economic social and cultural rights. Furthermore, the Committee recommends that the State party ensure the right of refugees and asylum seekers to register their marriages by lifting the administrative requirements or by granting a special measure to facilitate their right to marry.

16. (...) The Committee calls on the State party to intensify its efforts to guarantee health services to all. The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health services, in particular in rural and remote areas, including to refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs and stateless persons. The Committee recommends that the State party take necessary measures to fight against corruption in the health sector so that non-official fees are not collected from patients. The Committee also recommends that the State party monitor mental health centres and services to ensure compliance with the established international standards.

23. The Committee is concerned that, while the State party succeeded to drastically lower the level of poverty from almost 50 per cent in 2002 to 7.6 per cent in 2012, a
considerable part of the population still live below the poverty line, especially the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups. The Committee is also concerned that the level of
poverty is especially acute in rural areas (arts.10 and 11).

The Committee strongly urges the State party to intensify its efforts to combat poverty, especially among the most disadvantaged and marginalized members of the population, including persons with disabilities, IDPs, refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and migrant workers and to reduce disparities between the capital and the rural areas, and provide information on the progress made in its next report, including sex-disaggregated data per year for the groups listed above. In that respect, the Committee draws the State party’s attention to its statement concerning poverty and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/2001/10).

 

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. E/C.12/AZE/CO/3
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Azerbaijan

9. (...) The Committee also recommends that the State party implement a status determination procedure to identify stateless persons in the country and to grant them a legal status which would improve their enjoyment of economic social and cultural rights. (...) 16. (...) The Committee...

9. (...) The Committee also recommends that the State party implement a status determination procedure to identify stateless persons in the country and to grant them a legal status which would improve their enjoyment of economic social and cultural rights. (...)

16. (...) The Committee calls on the State party to intensify its efforts to guarantee health services to all. The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health services, in particular in rural and remote areas, including to refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs and stateless persons. (...)

23. (...) The Committee strongly urges the State party to intensify its efforts to combat poverty, especially among the most disadvantaged and marginalized members of the population, including persons with disabilities, IDPs, refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and migrant workers and to reduce disparities between the capital and the rural areas, and provide information on the progress made in its next report, including sex-disaggregated data per year for the groups listed above. In that respect, the Committee draws the State party’s attention to its statement concerning poverty and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/C.12/2001/10).

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. E/C.12/AZE/CO/3
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Azerbaijan

31. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Intensify its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and issued personal identity documents; (b) Provide training to the relevant law enforcement officers on the systematic birth registration of...

31. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Intensify its efforts to ensure that all children of migrant workers are registered at birth and issued personal identity documents;

(b) Provide training to the relevant law enforcement officers on the systematic birth registration of all children of migrant workers;

(c) Raise awareness on the importance of birth registration among migrant workers and members of their families, especially those in an irregular situation.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CMW/C/AZE/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Paraguay

46. The Committee urges the State party to set up a programme on the civil registration of children with disabilities at birth, on an equal footing with other children, and decentralize registry procedures and ensure that they can be carried out simply, quickly and free of charge.

46. The Committee urges the State party to set up a programme on the civil registration of children with disabilities at birth, on an equal footing with other children, and decentralize registry procedures and ensure that they can be carried out simply, quickly and free of charge.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRPD/C/PRY/CO/1

Italy

12. (...) It has signed but not ratified the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 60. According to the law, unaccompanied children cannot be detained and are to be issued with a residence permit (Decreto Legislativo 286/98, article 19.2.a). Other vulnerable categories of...

12. (...) It has signed but not ratified the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

60. According to the law, unaccompanied children cannot be detained and are to be issued with a residence permit (Decreto Legislativo 286/98, article 19.2.a). Other vulnerable categories of migrants, such as victims of trafficking or asylum applicants, cannot be removed. Other provisions further protect minors, and pregnant women and their spouses, or parents of new born babies up to six months old. However, the Special Rapporteur notes that certain practical obstacles, including lack of cooperation of countries of origin of irregular migrants, statelessness, and difficulties in the identification of persons subject to a removal, are other reasons for which these orders are not able to be carried out.

81. The Special Rapporteur encountered numerous detainees in CIEs who in fact did not have citizenship of any country. These stateless persons have little possibility of being identified, yet nevertheless are detained, often for extended periods. Of particular concern to the Special Rapporteur were stateless persons with particular ties to Italy. These cases often involved Roma, who often were born in, or have longstanding ties to Italy, speak Italian, and have no other country of citizenship. Stateless Roma detainees, the Special Rapporteur was told, were often detained for a number of months, and eventually released with an order to leave the country. They of course do not leave, as Italy is the only home they know, but often find themselves detained again. This vicious cycle appears to serve no legitimate legal or policy aim and in practice simply serves to undermine the human rights of the affected persons.

85. The Special Rapporteur thus urges the Italian authorities to undertake an individual assessment of the necessity of detention in all cases. Such alternatives are particularly important for specific categories of migrants who cannot be properly identified, and stateless persons, especially when born or raised in Italy.

Detention International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/23/46/Add.3
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Angola

23. (...) The State party should finalize the adoption of the new decree on free birth registration for all children and adults, and improve its official system of birth registration. It should also conduct awareness-raising campaigns on birth registration procedures within communities, in...

23. (...) The State party should finalize the adoption of the new decree on free birth registration for all children and adults, and improve its official system of birth registration. It should also conduct awareness-raising campaigns on birth registration procedures within communities, in particular in rural areas.

Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/AGO/CO/1
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Paraguay

26. (...) The State party should continue its efforts to ensure that all children born in its territory are registered and receive an official birth certificate. Accordingly, it should amend its legislation to allow teenage mothers to register their children without the need for a court...

26. (...) The State party should continue its efforts to ensure that all children born in its territory are registered and receive an official birth certificate. Accordingly, it should amend its legislation to allow teenage mothers to register their children without the need for a court order. It should also carry out campaigns to encourage the registration of all adults who have not yet been registered.

Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/PRY/CO/3*
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Belize

22. (...) The State party should strengthen its efforts to realize birth registration and the provision of birth certificates for all children, particularly in the rural areas, through appropriate interventions such as awareness-raising programmes on the need to register births and to...

22. (...) The State party should strengthen its efforts to realize birth registration and the provision of birth certificates for all children, particularly in the rural areas, through appropriate interventions such as awareness-raising programmes on the need to register births and to simplify procedures for registration. The State party should provide information in its initial report on the impact of the lack of birth certificates on claims to nationality and access to social benefits.

Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/BLZ/CO/1

Philippines

71. The Special Rapporteur observed that a significant number of children born in Malaysia to Filipino parents, who have been deported back to the Philippines, did not have identification documents, which increases their vulnerability to trafficking. Lack of citizenship significantly...

71. The Special Rapporteur observed that a significant number of children born in Malaysia to Filipino parents, who have been deported back to the Philippines, did not have identification documents, which increases their vulnerability to trafficking. Lack of citizenship significantly restricts their enjoyment of the rights to education, employment opportunities, health services and freedom of movement, which encourages them to resort to unsafe migration avenues at the risk of being trafficked. She was informed of the recent progress made in issuing birth certificates to many of these children, and urges the Government to intensify efforts in this regard. 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights (Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Born abroad Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/23/48/Add.3
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Dominican Republic

18. (...) The Committee urges the State party to continue its policy of issuing identity cards and to resolve the structural problem affecting registration. 19. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party: remove the administrative obstacles to issuing identity documents to...

18. (...) The Committee urges the State party to continue its policy of issuing identity cards and to resolve the structural problem affecting registration.

19. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party: remove the administrative obstacles to issuing identity documents to Dominicans of Haitian origin and restore any such documents that have been confiscated, cancelled or destroyed by the authorities; ensure that Dominican citizens of Haitian origin are not deprived of their right to nationality; and adopt non-discriminatory policies with regard to identity documents, guaranteeing due process (CERD/C/DOM/CO/12, para. 16).

20. (...) The Committee recalls that the scope of national sovereignty with regard to nationality is limited in terms of respect for human rights, specifically the principle of non-discrimination, and invites the Dominican Republic: to implement the recommendations made by various human rights mechanisms; to respect the principle of non-discrimination in access to nationality, in conformity with the Committee’s general recommendation No. 30 (2004); and to implement the national plan for regularizing illegal immigrants, as provided for in article 151 of the Migration Act (No. 285-04), giving priority to those who have resided in its territory for a long period (CERD/C/DOM/CO/12, para. 14).

26. The Committee encourages the State party to ratify the international treaties to which it is not yet a party, in particular the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990), the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954).

 

Loss/Deprivation Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Race/Ethnicity International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/DOM/CO/13-14