ISI Database on Statelessness and
Human Rights

Connecting nationality, statelessness and human rights. Explore and compare information from the international human rights monitoring systems to promote a human rights-based approach to nationality and statelessness.

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Number of results found: 2803

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.251. Urgently take measures to grant legal status to over 100,000 stateless persons and ensure their protection under the labour law.

157.251. Urgently take measures to grant legal status to over 100,000 stateless persons and ensure their protection under the labour law.

Recommending State: Austria

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.33. Accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and uphold the rights of the Bidouns to nationality and access to social services.

157.33. Accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and uphold the rights of the Bidouns to nationality and access to social services.

Recommending State: Canada

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.119. Review the Nationality Act to ensure equality between women and men with regard to the acquisition, change and retention of nationality.

157.119. Review the Nationality Act to ensure equality between women and men with regard to the acquisition, change and retention of nationality.

Recommending State: Poland

Recommendation Noted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.246. Take proper action to improve the situation of stateless persons, including by recognizing their civil and political rights.

157.246. Take proper action to improve the situation of stateless persons, including by recognizing their civil and political rights.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.254. Regularize as soon as possible the protracted situation of the stateless Bidouns in conformity with its international obligations and commitments and accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

157.254. Regularize as soon as possible the protracted situation of the stateless Bidouns in conformity with its international obligations and commitments and accede to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: Switzerland

Recommendation Noted

Remedy/Reparation International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.114. Modify the law relating to the nationality in a way to recognize the right of Kuwaiti women to transmit their nationality to their spouses and children.

157.114. Modify the law relating to the nationality in a way to recognize the right of Kuwaiti women to transmit their nationality to their spouses and children.

Recommending State: Togo

Recommendation Noted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.241. Strengthen actions to ensure that the rights of stateless individuals (Bidoun), domestic migrant workers and foreign female workers are protected and stateless children have access to education and health care.

157.241. Strengthen actions to ensure that the rights of stateless individuals (Bidoun), domestic migrant workers and foreign female workers are protected and stateless children have access to education and health care.

Recommending State: Netherlands

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.249. Implement the strategic plan to resolve the issue of stateless individuals in Kuwait, through a transparent system in which individuals whose nationality and status is unresolved can either attain Kuwaiti nationality rightfully or otherwise regularize their situation.

157.249. Implement the strategic plan to resolve the issue of stateless individuals in Kuwait, through a transparent system in which individuals whose nationality and status is unresolved can either attain Kuwaiti nationality rightfully or otherwise regularize their situation.

Recommending State: United Kingdom

Recommendation Noted

Remedy/Reparation

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.31. Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

157.31. Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless
Persons.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.117. Strengthen its efforts in order to end discrimination against women, especially by revising the Personal Status Law and granting women the right to confer their nationality.

157.117. Strengthen its efforts in order to end discrimination against women, especially by revising the Personal Status Law and granting women the right to confer their nationality.

Recommending State: Germany

Recommendation Noted

Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action