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Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Republic of the Congo

21. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee urges the State party: (a) To abolish all birth registration fees and ensure that all children, including Indigenous children and children of unmarried parents, are properly registered at birth, including by...

21. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee urges the State party:

(a) To abolish all birth registration fees and ensure that all children, including Indigenous children and children of unmarried parents, are properly registered at birth, including by raising awareness among the general population on the procedure for obtaining a birth certificate, and its free delivery, as well as by specifically targeting personnel working at civil registry services;

(b) To extend the one-month limit to allow families more time to register births, to ensure that children without a birth certificate can access education and all other essential social services, and to consider implementing “catch-up registration” through schools;

(c) To allocate sufficient funding and resources to ensure the effective implementation of the establishment of auxiliary civil status centres in health facilities.

47. While welcoming the adoption of Law No. 41-2021 of 29 September 2021, which creates a comprehensive legal basis and an appropriate framework to provide international protection, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(c) Consider ratifying 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/COG/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Senegal

18. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee strongly urges the State party: (a) To ensure free birth registration at the local level for all children under the age of 5 years and extend that service throughout the country and ensure that childbirth...

18. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee strongly urges the State party:

(a) To ensure free birth registration at the local level for all children under the age of 5 years and extend that service throughout the country and ensure that childbirth registration procedures are made more accessible through the establishment of secure mechanisms at the community level, including in villages, neighbourhoods and municipalities, and the widespread computerization of birth registration;

(b) To adopt appropriate legislative and administrative measures to systematize the regular issuance of birth certificates and identity documents to refugee children and talibés, ensuring they are incorporated into the national civil registration modernization programme;

(c) To strengthen birth registration programmes, such as the Investing in the Early Years for Human Development in Senegal Project;

(d) To continue nationwide roll-out initiatives, such as the birth registration corners in health centres and the mechanisms for identifying and registering students without birth certificates;

(e) To take steps to inform the public and strengthen mass communication to promote the declaration of births, especially in rural areas, and carry out campaigns to issue supplementary judgments and set reasonable deadlines for the transcription and withdrawal of civil status documents;

(f) To abolish all birth registration fees;

(g) To implement the Act on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons of 14 April 2022 to prevent the statelessness of the children of foreign parents unable to confer their nationality on their children born abroad;

(h) To introduce a safeguard in its nationality law and extend the granting of nationality at birth to children, irrespective of their age, on the territory, ensuring that any child born or found on its territory who would otherwise be stateless can acquire Senegalese nationality.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Born on territory Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/SEN/CO/6-7
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Italy

34. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/ITA/CO/7, para. 34) that the State party strengthen its statelessness determination procedures and facilitate access to Italian nationality for stateless persons and the children of non-formally recognized stateless persons,...

34. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/ITA/CO/7, para. 34) that the State party strengthen its statelessness determination procedures and facilitate access to Italian nationality for stateless persons and the children of non-formally recognized stateless persons, with a particular focus on women and girls. It also recommends that the State party ensure compliance with international standards on procedural safeguards in statelessness determination procedures and apply them in a gender-sensitive manner.

Identification and determination procedures Remedy/Reparation
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/ITA/CO/8
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Djibouti

44. In line with its previous recommendations (CEDAW/C/DJI/CO/1-3, para. 35) and its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure that all...

44. In line with its previous recommendations (CEDAW/C/DJI/CO/1-3, para. 35) and its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Ensure that all refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant women in its territory have access to education, employment, health care and shelters or affordable housing, as well as birth registration and birth certificates for themselves and their children, regardless of their migration status, and protect them from gender-based violence and sexual exploitation;

Birth registration
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Doc. CEDAW/C/DJI/CO/4-5
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Oman

14. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendations (CEDAW/C/OMN/CO/2-3, para. 12) and urges the State party: (...) (c) To expedite a comprehensive review of its legislation to ensure compatibility with the provisions of the Convention and to modify or repeal, without delay and within...

14. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendations (CEDAW/C/OMN/CO/2-3, para. 12) and urges the State party:

(...) (c) To expedite a comprehensive review of its legislation to ensure compatibility with the provisions of the Convention and to modify or repeal, without delay and within a clear time frame, all remaining discriminatory legislation, including discriminatory provisions in the Personal Status Law and the Nationality Law.

40. The Committee, in line with its previous recommendations (CEDAW/C/OMN/CO/2-3, para. 34), urges the State party to amend article 18 of the Nationality Law to remove discriminatory requirements against women and to enable Omani women to transmit their nationality to their foreign spouses and their children on an equal basis with men. It also recommends that the State party accede 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/OMN/CO/4
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Greece

30. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party facilitate birth registration procedures and access to identity cards for refugee and...

30. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party facilitate birth registration procedures and access to identity cards for refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls through online procedures, reduce the cost of birth certificates and deploy mobile civil registration units to ensure that all children born in the State party are registered at birth and have access to identity documents. The Committee also recommends that the State party accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, the 2006 Council of Europe Convention on the Avoidance of Statelessness in relation to State Succession and the 1997 European Convention on Nationality.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/GRC/CO/8-9
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Central African Republic

36. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Set up a time frame for completing the reform of the Nationality Code and ensure that...

36. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Set up a time frame for completing the reform of the Nationality Code and ensure that the Code recognizes the equal right of women of the Central African Republic to transmit their nationality to a foreign spouse, that it provides for the automatic transfer of nationality from mothers to their children, including children born to women of the Central African Republic who are living abroad or to internally displaced women, and that it protects women and children from statelessness, in line with the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;

(b) Facilitate the access of Muslim, indigenous and nomadic women to birth registration and birth certificates for their children, and to identity documents.

63. (...) The Committee also encourages the State party to ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

(Forced) migration context Nationality/Identity documentation Born abroad Birth registration Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/CAF/CO/6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Niger

24. In line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25 (2004) on temporary special measures, the Committee recommends that the State party: (b) Adopt temporary special measures, such as targeted recruitment, hiring and promotion, public budgeting...

24. In line with article 4 (1) of the Convention and the Committee’s general recommendation No. 25 (2004) on temporary special measures, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(b) Adopt temporary special measures, such as targeted recruitment, hiring and promotion, public budgeting and procurement and affirmative action, and establish time-bound targets, as a necessary strategy to accelerate the achievement of substantive equality between women and men in all areas covered by the Convention where women are underrepresented or disadvantaged, such as education, employment, heath care, conflict resolution, peacemaking processes, investment models and economic and social life, with particular attention given to internally displaced women, refugee, stateless and migrant women, women with disabilities, rural women and older women;

38. With reference to its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the genderrelated dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Adopt legislation to regulate statelessness determination procedures;

(b) Ensure that effective legal safeguards and remedies are available to stateless women and children awaiting deportation and ensure the effective protection and resilience of forcibly displaced persons and their peaceful coexistence with host communities;

(c) Collect data on stateless women and girls, disaggregated by age and ethnicity, and provide such data in its next periodic report, along with the results of the study on the situation of statelessness and the risk of statelessness.

 

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/NER/CO/5
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Tajikistan

45. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure that stateless women, women of undetermined nationality and women at risk of statelessness and their children have adequate access to identity documents, justice, employment, health care, housing and social protection; (b) Renew...

45. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Ensure that stateless women, women of undetermined nationality and women at risk of statelessness and their children have adequate access to identity documents, justice, employment, health care, housing and social protection;

(b) Renew the amnesty law to enable stateless persons and foreigners living in the State party to regularize their legal status;

(c) Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Lack of documents/Access to documentation Remedy/Reparation International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TJK/CO/7
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Turkmenistan

38. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Amend the definition of statelessness in the Turkmenistan Citizenship Act (2013) to...

38. Recalling its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Amend the definition of statelessness in the Turkmenistan Citizenship Act (2013) to bring it into conformity with article 1 of the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons;

(b) Ease the requirements for refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless women and girls to apply for Turkmen citizenship and ensure that they have access to the necessary legal assistance and documentation;

(c) Ensure that all children born in the State party have access to birth registration and birth certificates, irrespective of their parent’s legal status, facilitate birth registration procedures, including by reducing costs, deploying mobile civil registrar units to remote areas and providing relevant information in accessible languages to refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless women and girls, and uphold obligations under the Civil Status Act (2020);

(d) Ensure that Turkmen women and girls living abroad have adequate access to passport renewal procedures, thereby preventing the risk of statelessness;

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Remedy/Reparation Stateless Persons - Other (Forced) migration context Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/TKM/CO/6