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Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

28. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that migrant workers who have been deprived of their citizenship have access to effective legal remedies to submit the reasons why they should not be expelled to a third country, in particular when they would face a risk of ill...

28. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that migrant workers who have been deprived of their citizenship have access to effective legal remedies to submit the reasons why they should not be expelled to a third country, in particular when they would face a risk of ill-treatment upon return to that country.

36. 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; and

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

Loss/Deprivation (Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CMW/C/BIH/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Cyprus

47. (...) The Committee also encourages the State party to consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

47. (...) The Committee also encourages the State party to consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/CYP/CO/3-4
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Maldives

9.   The Committee is concerned at article 9 (d) of the Constitution according to which a non-Muslim may not become a citizen of the Maldives (arts. 2, 18 and 26). The State party should revise its Constitution to ensure that religion is not a basis for citizenship.

9.   The Committee is concerned at article 9 (d) of the Constitution according to which a non-Muslim may not become a citizen of the Maldives (arts. 2, 18 and 26).

The State party should revise its Constitution to ensure that religion is not a basis for citizenship.

Religion Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CCPR/C/MDV/CO/1
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Kenya

23. (...) The State party should adopt necessary programmes and budgetary measures to ensure universal birth registration at an early stage in the life of all children born in the territory of the State party. The State party should also ensure that the rights and entitlements of all...

23. (...) The State party should adopt necessary programmes and budgetary measures to ensure universal birth registration at an early stage in the life of all children born in the territory of the State party. The State party should also ensure that the rights and entitlements of all children of Nubian descent, and other children in a similar situation, to citizenship and national identity cards are fully respected.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/KEN/CO/3
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Australia

36. The Committee urges the State party to review its birth registration process in detail to ensure that all children born in Australia are registered at birth, and that no child is disadvantaged due to procedural barriers to registration, including by raising awareness among the Aboriginal...

36. The Committee urges the State party to review its birth registration process in detail to ensure that all children born in Australia are registered at birth, and that no child is disadvantaged due to procedural barriers to registration, including by raising awareness among the Aboriginal population on the importance of birth registration and providing special support to facilitate birth registration for illiterate persons. It further urges the State party to issue birth certificates upon the birth of a child and for free. 

38. (...) With reference to article 8 of the Convention, the Committee further recommends that the State party undertake measures to ensure that no child is deprived of citizenship on any ground regardless of the status of his/her parents.

 

Loss/Deprivation Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/AUS/CO/4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Viet Nam

38. The Committee, recalling its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.200, para. 32), recommends that the State party continue and strengthen its efforts to secure the registration at birth of all children, giving particular attention to children living in rural and mountainous areas, and...

38. The Committee, recalling its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.200, para. 32), recommends that the State party continue and strengthen its efforts to secure the registration at birth of all children, giving particular attention to children living in rural and mountainous areas, and undertake awareness-raising campaigns on the right of all children to be registered at birth, regardless of social and ethnic background and the resident status of parents.

80. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify (...) the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/VNM/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Greece

33. In the light of articles 7 and 8, the Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.170, para. 41), and calls upon the State party to strengthen all necessary measures to ensure that: (a) All children are duly registered at birth, including through improvement of the...

33. In the light of articles 7 and 8, the Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CRC/C/15/Add.170, para. 41), and calls upon the State party to strengthen all necessary measures to ensure that:
(a) All children are duly registered at birth, including through improvement of the provision of information on, and easier access to, birth registration facilities; and
(b) All children, especially those from disadvantaged groups, are able to be registered under, and make use of, their full original name as chosen by their parents or other legal guardian.

73. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the core United Nations human rights treaties and the Optional Protocols thereto to which it is not yet a party, namely, the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and International Labour Organization Convention No. 189 (2011) concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers.

 

Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/GRC/CO/2-3
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

The Bahamas

30. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Raise awareness among the population on the equal rights of women and men with regard to transmission of nationality; (b) Amend its Constitution and relevant domestic laws to grant Bahamian women equal rights with men regarding the...

30. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Raise awareness among the population on the equal rights of women and men with regard to transmission of nationality;
(b) Amend its Constitution and relevant domestic laws to grant Bahamian women equal rights with men regarding the transmission of their nationality to their children or to their spouses of foreign nationality;
(c) Withdraw its reservation to article 9 (2) of the Convention;
 

Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training
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Doc. CEDAW/C/BHS/CO/1-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Türkiye

37. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to ensure complete and immediate birth registration, in particular by improving birth registration systems and providing information and raising awareness in rural areas of the Eastern regions and among mothers who do...

37. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to ensure complete and immediate birth registration, in particular by improving birth registration systems and providing information and raising awareness in rural areas of the Eastern regions and among mothers who do not have formal education.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/TUR/CO/2-3
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Algeria

38. The Committee urges the State party to ensure that all children within the territory of the State party living in Algeria, including children born out of wedlock, refugee and stateless children are registered at birth. The State party should also urgently issue clear instructions to all...

38. The Committee urges the State party to ensure that all children within the territory of the State party living in Algeria, including children born out of wedlock, refugee and stateless children are registered at birth. The State party should also urgently issue clear instructions to all schools throughout the territory that all children, irrespective of their registration status should be enrolled into public schools and that no child should be deprived access to education.

40. The Committee recalls the responsibilities of the State party, in accordance with articles 2 and 7 of the Convention, to ensure that all children within the State party’s jurisdiction have the right to be registered 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 therefore urges the State party:

(a) To ensure that children born to an Algerian mother married to a foreign national can automatically acquire their mother’s nationality as prescribed in the Nationality Code;

(...)

(d) To ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Birth registration Gender International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/DZA/CO/3-4