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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Uruguay

125.274 Design a comprehensive policy to provide humanitarian assistance and facilitate access for refugees, stateless persons and asylum-seekers to their rights, and allocate adequate budget and staff.

125.274 Design a comprehensive policy to provide humanitarian assistance and facilitate access for refugees, stateless persons and asylum-seekers to their rights, and allocate adequate budget and staff.

Recommending State: Costa Rica

Recommendation Accepted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Uruguay

125.272 Consider revising legal citizenship provisions to ensure their conformity with international standards on the right to nationality and the reduction of statelessness.

125.272 Consider revising legal citizenship provisions to ensure their conformity with international standards on the right to nationality and the reduction of statelessness.

Recommending State: Brazil

Recommendation Accepted

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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Egypt

19. Noting the amendments to the Nationality Act in 2023 granting children of naturalized mothers the right to acquire Egyptian nationality on an equal footing with those born to naturalized fathers, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure universal birth registration for...

19. Noting the amendments to the Nationality Act in 2023 granting children of naturalized mothers the right to acquire Egyptian nationality on an equal footing with those born to naturalized fathers, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Ensure universal birth registration for all children, irrespective of the place of birth or their parents’ status, in particular, by removing the requirement for the father to be present or to submit a marriage certificate under the Civil Status Act for the registration of a child, which creates an obstacle to the registration of certain groups of children, such as abandoned children, children of single mothers, children of migrants, asylum-seekers or refugees and children born to unmarried parents, and facilitate the registration of children in remote areas of the country by providing mobile birth registration systems, as well as proactively facilitating late birth registration, including by raising the public’s awareness about the importance of birth registration;

(b) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

44. Drawing attention to its general comment No. 21 (2017) on children in street situations, the Committee recalls its previous recommendation and calls upon the State party:

(c) To ensure that children in street situations have access to birth registration and identification documentation, education, health care, safe shelters and childcare centres for physical and psychological recovery and reintegration;

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/EGY/CO/5-6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Eritrea

132.34 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

132.34 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Togo

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Eritrea

132.16 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

132.16 Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Recommending State: Colombia

Recommendation Noted

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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Estonia

21. While noting the amendment to the Citizenship Act (1995) in 2020, the Committee recalls its previous recommendations and recommends that the State party: (a) Establish procedures for the identification and determination of persons as stateless, facilitate the naturalization of children...

21. While noting the amendment to the Citizenship Act (1995) in 2020, the Committee recalls its previous recommendations and recommends that the State party:

(a) Establish procedures for the identification and determination of persons as stateless, facilitate the naturalization of children with undetermined citizenship and collect data, disaggregated by relevant factors, on stateless children;

(b) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness;

(c) Consider ratifying the European Convention on Nationality and the Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession.

40. Recalling the joint general comments No. 3 and No. 4 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families/No. 22 and No. 23 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2017) on the human rights of children in the context of international migration and its general comment No. 6 (2005) on the treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin, the Committee recalls its previous concluding observations9 and urges the State party:

(d) To consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Identification and determination procedures Access to nationality/Naturalization International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/EST/CO/5-7
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Paraguay

19. Welcoming the adoption of Act No. 6149/2018 on the Protection of and Facilities for the Naturalization of Stateless Persons, the Committee strongly urges the State party: (a) To ensure comprehensive free-of-charge birth registration and issuance of birth certificates for all children...

19. Welcoming the adoption of Act No. 6149/2018 on the Protection of and Facilities for the Naturalization of Stateless Persons, the Committee strongly urges the State party:

(a) To ensure comprehensive free-of-charge birth registration and issuance of birth certificates for all children born in its territory, immediately after the birth, regardless of their or of their parents’ immigration status, including those who have expressed an intention to apply for asylum and those who are undocumented;

(b) To enforce the provisions of Act No. 6149/2018 related to the registration as nationals of the children of Paraguayans born abroad that are stateless by legal provisions of their country of birth;

(c) To address disparities in birth registration between urban and rural areas, especially in Indigenous communities, ensuring that all births are properly registered;

(d) To review article 56 of Act No. 1266/1987 to ensure that it aligns with non-discriminatory practices and respects the rights to Guaraní identity;

(e) To review the current registration system in order to identify any deficiencies that are preventing parents, especially in rural communities, from registering their children as soon as they are born;

(f) To perform an institutional evaluation with the National Directorate of the Civil Registry, in particular of their territorial offices, and mobilize public discussions starting within the National Council for Children and Adolescents to formulate and execute an institutional strengthening plan;

(g) To coordinate the departmental and municipal councils and the Municipal Advisory Services on the Rights of Children and Adolescents with the respective institutions, with a view to promoting the registration of children and the exercise of the right to identity, and disseminate the new regulations and existing legal and institutional adjustments to strengthen this process;

(h) In the case of Indigenous communities and isolated populations, to propose mobile service operations that, in addition to registration, bring other public services closer, under the conceptual slogan “the State reaches out to the community”;

(i) To ensure through data analysis and the monitoring of the mobile campaigns that all newborns in rural and isolated communities are registered.

Remedy/Reparation Born abroad Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/PRY/CO/4-6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Vanuatu

110.5 Consider the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its Protocol, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless...

110.5 Consider the ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its Protocol, the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Chile

Recommendation Noted

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Vanuatu

110.209 Strengthen the civil registration system to guarantee the birth registration of all boys and girls, through outreach campaigns addressed to people at risk of statelessness.

110.209 Strengthen the civil registration system to guarantee the birth registration of all boys and girls, through outreach campaigns addressed to people at risk of statelessness.

Recommending State: Chile

Recommendation Accepted

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Committee against Torture (CAT)

North Macedonia

30. (...) In addition, the Committee is concerned about the information that it has received in which the following issues were raised: (...) (f) The presence in the State party of a number of stateless persons (more than 200 individuals, mainly Roma), although the Committee welcomes the...

30. (...) In addition, the Committee is concerned about the information that it has received in which the following issues were raised: (...)

(f) The presence in the State party of a number of stateless persons (more than 200 individuals, mainly Roma), although the Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts at the legislative and policy levels, as well as its commitment to resolving their situation by the end of 2024 (arts. 2, 3, 11 and 16).

31. Recalling its previous recommendations, the Committee requests the State party: (...) 

(f) To intensify its efforts to end statelessness, in line with the commitment reported by the delegation and the State party’s international obligations.

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