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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.91 Adopt measures to guarantee birth registration of its citizens. 

90.91 Adopt measures to guarantee birth registration of its citizens. 

Recommending State: Romania

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Doc. A/HRC/30/7
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.15 Repeal the constitutional provision making it possible to refuse naturalization on the grounds of physical and/or mental disability. 

90.15 Repeal the constitutional provision making it possible to refuse naturalization on the grounds of physical and/or mental disability. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Disability Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.92 Intensify its efforts to ensure birth registration for everyone, especially children and adolescents in rural areas. 

90.92 Intensify its efforts to ensure birth registration for everyone, especially children and adolescents in rural areas. 

Recommending State: Thailand

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

Panama

90.90 Adopt administrative, budgetary, legislative and awareness-raising measures that ensure the right to birth registration of children of indigenous or African origin and from rural areas. 

90.90 Adopt administrative, budgetary, legislative and awareness-raising measures that ensure the right to birth registration of children of indigenous or African origin and from rural areas. 

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration
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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Thailand

14. The Committee recommends that the State party continue strengthening its measures to facilitate the naturalization and integration of stateless persons, including by addressing remaining gaps in the Nationality Act, as well as to ensure the enjoyment of their economic, social and...

14. The Committee recommends that the State party continue strengthening its measures to facilitate the naturalization and integration of stateless persons, including by addressing remaining gaps in the Nationality Act, as well as to ensure the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights. It also recommends that the State party consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. E/C.12/THA/CO/1-2
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Mexico

28. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen efforts to ensure universal birth registration, including by undertaking the necessary legal reforms and adopting the required procedures at the state and municipal levels. Registry offices or mobile units should be available in...

28. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen efforts to ensure universal birth registration, including by undertaking the necessary legal reforms and adopting the required procedures at the state and municipal levels. Registry offices or mobile units should be available in all maternity units, in the main points of transit or destination of migrants and in communities where children are born with traditional birth attendants.

Birth registration
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Doc. CRC/C/MEX/CO/4-5
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Eritrea

31. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation that the State party strengthen and further develop measures to ensure that all children born within the national territory, including those belonging to minorities and living in remote areas, are registered. The Committee urges the...

31. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation that the State party strengthen and further develop measures to ensure that all children born within the national territory, including those belonging to minorities and living in remote areas, are registered. The Committee urges the State party to create institutional birth registration structures at all levels that are accessible and free, such as mobile units in rural and remote areas and units targeting internally displaced persons and those living in refugee camps, in order to encourage birth registration. The Committee recommends that the State party seek technical assistance from UNICEF and other United Nations specialized agencies in the implementation of these recommendations (see CRC/C/ERI/CO/3, para. 33).

34. The Committee is concerned at the allegation that followers of unrecognized religious denominations, including children, face restrictions in the exercise of their religious faith and practices and are often harassed, persecuted or denied official identity cards.

35. The Committee urges the State party to:

(...)

(b) Immediately reinstate the full citizenship of children and their families who follow unrecognized religious denominations and ensure their equal access to public services, including for the issuance of official identity cards.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration Religion
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Doc. CRC/C/ERI/CO/4

Malaysia

21.  In  addition, the Special Rapporteur was informed that a significant number of refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons, particularly those from the Filipino and Indonesian communities in Sabah and Rohingya from Myanmar, are increasingly becoming victims of trafficking. Their lack...

21.  In  addition, the Special Rapporteur was informed that a significant number of refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons, particularly those from the Filipino and Indonesian communities in Sabah and Rohingya from Myanmar, are increasingly becoming victims of trafficking. Their lack of formal recognition significantly restricts their and their children’s ability to obtain education, employment opportunities, health services, freedom of movement and access to justice. This in turn makes them easy prey for unscrupulous traffickers and employers who exploit them with impunity. Their children are vulnerable to being trafficked for labour exploitation. There is also anecdotal information that undocumented older children are easily trafficked for “drug-running”. Finally,  there are also reports of children being trafficked for adoption purposes from Singapore to childless families in Malaysia (the destination country).

29.  Regrettably, Malaysia is not party to [...]  the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons [...].

93.  With regards to identification, training and capacity-building, she recommends that the Government:

(a)  Specifically outline and harmonize identification protocols to combat trafficking in persons, developing a range of red flags and indicators to be used when screening vulnerable persons, including undocumented migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/29/38/Add.1
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

10. The Committee acknowledges the amendments made to the Law on Citizenship but regrets that the legislation of the State party’s entities on citizenship is not yet in line with them. Thus, different requirements regarding the naturalization of refugees and stateless persons apply,...

10. The Committee acknowledges the amendments made to the Law on Citizenship but regrets that the legislation of the State party’s entities on citizenship is not yet in line with them. Thus, different requirements regarding the naturalization of refugees and stateless persons apply, depending on their place of residence. Furthermore, the Committee notes with concern that:

(a) The grounds for denying citizenship, as stipulated in article 9 (2), are vague and may lead to discriminatory application;

(b) According to article 9 (1) 6, obtaining citizenship requires the prior renunciation of foreign citizenship, which may expose individuals to the risk of statelessness (arts. 2 and 5).

The Committee recommends that the State party fully harmonize the legislation of its entities on citizenship with the latest amendments to the Law on Citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Furthermore, the Committee recommends that the State party enact safeguards to prevent statelessness and the discriminatory application of article 9 of the Law on Citizenship. 

Access to nationality/Naturalization Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/BIH/CO/9-11
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Sudan

19. The Committee notes with concern that the 2011 amendment to the Nationality Act, as introduced in section 10 (2), provides for the revocation of the Sudanese nationality of those who have acquired “de jure or de facto” the nationality of South Sudan, thus exposing many South Sudanese...

19. The Committee notes with concern that the 2011 amendment to the Nationality Act, as introduced in section 10 (2), provides for the revocation of the Sudanese nationality of those who have acquired “de jure or de facto” the nationality of South Sudan, thus exposing many South Sudanese residing in the Sudan who have not necessarily acquired South Sudanese nationality to a high risk of statelessness (arts. 5 and 6).

The Committee recommends that the State party withdraw the 2011 amendment to the Nationality Act, ensure that rules governing citizenship acquisition and deprivation apply equally to all without discrimination based on, inter alia, ethnicity and protect against statelessness.

Loss/Deprivation Access to nationality/Naturalization Race/Ethnicity Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CERD/C/SDN/CO/12-16