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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Mauritania

19. (...) The Committee urges the State party to simplify birth registration procedures so as to take account of the constraints faced by the population, such as geographical barriers and the difficulty in obtaining or producing official documents, including in respect to children born out...

19. (...) The Committee urges the State party to simplify birth registration procedures so as to take account of the constraints faced by the population, such as geographical barriers and the difficulty in obtaining or producing official documents, including in respect to children born out of wedlock. The Committee also calls on the State party to facilitate birth registration by allowing late registration without fines as well as through the health-care system and by coupling regular vaccination campaigns with campaigns for birth registration.

Birth registration
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Doc. E/C.12/MRT/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Albania

36. The Committee urges the State party to continue and strengthen, as a matter of priority, its efforts to establish a system ensuring the registration of all children born within its territory and that registration is free of charge. The Committee also urges the State party to take...

36. The Committee urges the State party to continue and strengthen, as a matter of priority, its efforts to establish a system ensuring the registration of all children born within its territory and that registration is free of charge. The Committee also urges the State party to take proactive measures targeting categories of children whose birth registration remains problematic. The State 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 failure to enroll these children might lead to administrative sanctions.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/ALB/CO/2-4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Switzerland

123.5. Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

123.5. Ratify the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/22/11
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Canada

41. The Committee recommends that the State party review the provisions of the amendment to the Citizenship Act that are not in line with the Convention with a view to removing restrictions on acquiring Canadian citizenship for children born abroad to Canadian parents. The Committee also...

41. The Committee recommends that the State party review the provisions of the amendment to the Citizenship Act that are not in line with the Convention with a view to removing restrictions on acquiring Canadian citizenship for children born abroad to Canadian parents. The Committee also urges the State party to consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Born abroad International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/CAN/CO/3-4
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Andorra

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

44. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and 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/AND/CO/2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

36. The Committee urges the State party to take immediate and concrete steps to implement the Zagreb Declaration, including by reviewing its birth registration process in detail to ensure that all children born in its territory are registered at birth, and that no child is disadvantaged due...

36. The Committee urges the State party to take immediate and concrete steps to implement the Zagreb Declaration, including by reviewing its birth registration process in detail to ensure that all children born in its territory are registered at birth, and that no child is disadvantaged due to procedural barriers to registration. In this context, the Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Consider increasing the number of birth registration offices in rural and outlying areas;
(b) Issue birth certificates free of charge;
(c) Provide special support to facilitate birth registration for illiterate persons or persons without documentation;
(d) Issue birth certificates for all children born in its territory, regardless of the immigration status of the child or his/her parents;
(e) Raise awareness, especially among the Roma population, of the importance of birth registration

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/BIH/CO/2-4
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Thailand

14. While welcoming the setting of the target of granting of legal status to about 300,000 persons within a time frame of three years and measures such as the adoption of the 2008 Civil Registration Act (No. 2), the Committee is nevertheless concerned at the large number of persons in the...

14. While welcoming the setting of the target of granting of legal status to about 300,000 persons within a time frame of three years and measures such as the adoption of the 2008 Civil Registration Act (No. 2), the Committee is nevertheless concerned at the large number of persons in the State party eligible for citizenship but who are currently stateless. The Committee is further concerned at the subsequent denial of their civil and political rights as well as economic and social rights. Moreover, while noting that the State party’s legislation allows for the registration of all persons born in the State party, the Committee remains concerned that a large number of births, particularly among ethnic groups and migrants, are not registered. The Committee reminds the State party that lack of birth registration is a contributing factor to statelessness (art. 5 (d)).

The Committee urges the State party to take effective measures to address the obstacles encountered in the acquisition of citizenship by those who qualify for it, including with regard to obtaining the required documentation from local authorities. Bearing in mind its general recommendation No. 30 (2004) on discrimination against non-citizens, the Committee also recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to facilitate the registration of births, including by allowing late registration as well as registration through the health-care system. The Committee further encourages the State party to accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Lack of documents/Access to documentation Remedy/Reparation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/THA/CO/1-3
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

17. (...) The Committee reiterates its previous concluding observations (CCPR/C/BIH/CO/1, para. 22) and recommends that the State party should increase its efforts to improve birth registration and the provision of birth certificates, particularly among the Roma, through appropriate...

17. (...) The Committee reiterates its previous concluding observations (CCPR/C/BIH/CO/1, para. 22) and recommends that the State party should increase its efforts to improve birth registration and the provision of birth certificates, particularly among the Roma, through appropriate interventions such as awareness-raising programmes aimed at changing mindsets regarding the need to register births or obtain birth certificates.

Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/BIH/CO/2
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Chile

27. The Committee encourages the State party to: (a) Review and amend its legislation to ensure that children of migrant women in an irregular situation, who are born in the State party, can acquire Chilean nationality at birth, whenever they are unable to transfer their nationality to the...

27. The Committee encourages the State party to:
(a) Review and amend its legislation to ensure that children of migrant women in an irregular situation, who are born in the State party, can acquire Chilean nationality at birth, whenever they are unable to transfer their nationality to the children, as recommended by the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW/C/CHL/CO/1, para. 33)

(b) Consider acceding to the international instruments addressing the situation of stateless persons, namely the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) and the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons (1954).

(Forced) migration context Born on territory Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/CHL/CO/5-6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Togo

29. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Amend its Code of Nationality to grant women equal rights with men regarding the retention of the Togolese nationality in case of divorce (art. 23.3) and the transmission of the Togolese nationality to their children (art. 1) or to their...

29. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Amend its Code of Nationality to grant women equal rights with men regarding the retention of the Togolese nationality in case of divorce (art. 23.3) and the transmission of the Togolese nationality to their children (art. 1) or to their spouses of foreign nationality (art. 5); and
(b) Consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TGO/CO/6-7