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Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

30. The Committee recommends that the State party, in accordance with article 29 of the Convention, should ensure, both in law and in practice, the right of all children to have a name, to registration of their birth and to a nationality. The Committee urges the State party to complete as soon as possible the process of accession to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Birth registration International Instruments

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

37. The Committee recommends that the State party expedite the enactment of the National Registration Bill as a matter of priority and strengthen its efforts to ensure birth registration of all children. The Committee urges the State party to ensure allocation of adequate financial, human...

37. The Committee recommends that the State party expedite the enactment of the National Registration Bill as a matter of priority and strengthen its efforts to ensure birth registration of all children. The Committee urges the State party to ensure allocation of adequate financial, human and other resources to registration offices and centres and to take measures to ensure easy access to registration by the population in all parts of the country, particularly in the rural areas. The Committee further urges the State party to provide for registration, including late registration, of births free of charge.

65. The Committee recommends that the State party:

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(d) Consider ratifying the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;

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Birth registration International Instruments

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

14. (...) It should also ensure effective implementation of its policies aimed at higher employment rates for Roma, adequate political representation at all levels and equal access to citizenship and housing. (...) 17. (...) The Committee recommends that, in order to ensure that access to...

14. (...) It should also ensure effective implementation of its policies aimed at higher employment rates for Roma, adequate political representation at all levels and equal access to citizenship and housing. (...)

17. (...) The Committee recommends that, in order to ensure that access to citizenship is granted on a non-discriminatory basis, the State party should remove any administrative and other obstacles and assist persons whose access to obligatory documentation is limited, such as persons of Roma, Serb and Bosniak origin.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Race/Ethnicity Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

17. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party redouble its efforts to ensure that all births among indigenous peoples are registered and that such registered individuals are provided with personal identity documents. The Committee encourages the State party to bring civil status...

17. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party redouble its efforts to ensure that all births among indigenous peoples are registered and that such registered individuals are provided with personal identity documents. The Committee encourages the State party to bring civil status registration centres closer to the communities where indigenous people live (art. 5 (d)).

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

15. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party accelerate its efforts to resolve the uncertain legal status of “displaced persons” from Croatia and from Bosnia and Herzegovina and “internally displaced persons” from Kosovo, including through grants of citizenship, long-term...

15. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party accelerate its efforts to resolve the uncertain legal status of “displaced persons” from Croatia and from Bosnia and Herzegovina and “internally displaced persons” from Kosovo, including through grants of citizenship, long-term residence, or refugee status, as appropriate. The Committee recommends that the State party ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness adopted in 1961.

Access to nationality/Naturalization International Instruments