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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Guatemala

16. (...) The Committee reiterates its recommendation on the participation of indigenous peoples (CERD/C/GTM/CO/12-13, para. 10), bearing in mind its general recommendation No. 23 (1997). The Committee recommends expanding the participation of indigenous peoples in the community development...

16. (...) The Committee reiterates its recommendation on the participation of indigenous peoples (CERD/C/GTM/CO/12-13, para. 10), bearing in mind its general recommendation No. 23 (1997). The Committee recommends expanding the participation of indigenous peoples in the community development councils. The Committee also recommends amending the Political Parties and Electoral Act to improve the representation of indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples and to promote their participation in rural areas. It further recommends taking urgent action to ensure that all citizens have personal identity documentation.

Nationality/Identity documentation
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Doc. CERD/C/GTM/CO/14-15
Committee against Torture (CAT)

North Macedonia

19. (...) The State party should: (...) b. Adopt all measures necessary to ensure that stateless persons whose asylum claims have been refused, as well as asylum seekers, irregular migrants and refugees, are not held in detention indefinitely, by including statutory time limits for...

19. (...) The State party should:

(...)

b. Adopt all measures necessary to ensure that stateless persons whose asylum claims have been refused, as well as asylum seekers, irregular migrants and refugees, are not held in detention indefinitely, by including statutory time limits for detention and access to an effective judicial remedy to review the necessity of the detention;

(...)

Detention
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Statelessness Doc. CAT/C/MKD/CO/3
Committee against Torture (CAT)

Romania

12. (...) The State party should: (a) Ensure that all persons applying for international protection have access to a fair refugee determination procedure and are effectively protected against refoulement to countries where they risk torture, and consider establishing a statelessness...

12. (...) The State party should:

(a) Ensure that all persons applying for international protection have access to a fair refugee determination procedure and are effectively protected against refoulement to countries where they risk torture, and consider establishing a statelessness determination procedure;

Identification and determination procedures Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CAT/C/ROU/CO/2
Committee against Torture (CAT)

New Zealand

18. The State party should adopt the measures necessary: (...) d. To ensure that stateless persons whose asylum claims have been refused and refugees with adverse security or character assessments are not held in detention indefinitely, including by resorting to non-custodial measures and...

18. The State party should adopt the measures necessary:

(...)

d. To ensure that stateless persons whose asylum claims have been refused and refugees with adverse security or character assessments are not held in detention indefinitely, including by resorting to non-custodial measures and alternatives to closed immigration detention;

(...)

Detention
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Statelessness Doc. CAT/C/NZL/CO/6
Committee against Torture (CAT)

Republic of the Congo

18. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party:  (...) (f) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

18. (...) The Committee recommends that the State party: 

(...)

(f) Ratify 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. CAT/C/COG/CO/1
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Dominican Republic

36. The Committee is deeply concerned at the restrictions on access to community inclusion services for persons with disabilities of Haitian descent, as a consequence of the legislation restricting their rights to nationality. 37. The Committee recommends that the State party speed up the...

36. The Committee is deeply concerned at the restrictions on access to community inclusion services for persons with disabilities of Haitian descent, as a consequence of the legislation restricting their rights to nationality.

37. The Committee recommends that the State party speed up the restoration of all the rights of persons with disabilities of Haitian origin or descent, so as to enable them to use all services and programmes for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Race/Ethnicity
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Doc. CRPD/C/DOM/CO/1
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Croatia

8. The Committee is concerned about the number of stateless persons, mainly Roma, under the State party’s jurisdiction who face difficulties in meeting the requirements for obtaining Croatian citizenship because they often lack personal identity documents. The Committee is particularly...

8. The Committee is concerned about the number of stateless persons, mainly Roma, under the State party’s jurisdiction who face difficulties in meeting the requirements for obtaining Croatian citizenship because they often lack personal identity documents. The Committee is particularly concerned about persons who became stateless further to the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Committee considers that this situation creates an impediment for one of the most vulnerable groups, the Roma, to enjoyment of a range of human rights, including those under the Covenant, and prevents them from benefiting, inter alia, from social services, social benefits and adequate housing, and also limits their access to employment (arts. 2, 24 and 26).

The State party should take all the measures necessary to ensure full enjoyment of Covenant rights by all residents, including stateless persons. It should establish and implement effective measures to address statelessness and regularize the status of the Roma, including by facilitating access to identification documentation. The State party should also increase its efforts to ensure non-discriminatory access to adequate housing, social benefits and services for all victims of past conflicts under its jurisdiction, including the Roma.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Access to nationality/Naturalization Nationality/Identity documentation Race/Ethnicity
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Statelessness Doc. CCPR/C/HRV/CO/3
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Cyprus

6. The Committee is concerned about reports that the nationality laws are applied in a discriminatory manner in relation to individuals from particular groups, particularly children of Turkish Cypriots and persons of South-East Asian origin, and that members of the latter group encounter...

6. The Committee is concerned about reports that the nationality laws are applied in a discriminatory manner in relation to individuals from particular groups, particularly children of Turkish Cypriots and persons of South-East Asian origin, and that members of the latter group encounter obstacles in attaining Cypriot citizenship, despite meeting the legal requirements to acquire it (arts. 2 and 26). 

The State party should take adequate measures to ensure that the nationality laws are applied indiscriminately on the basis of clearly defined criteria. It should ensure that applicants have access to information concerning the requirements of citizenship and that they receive a decision on their application for citizenship within a reasonable period of time.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Discrimination - Other
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Doc. CCPR/C/CYP/CO/4
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Russia

23. (...) The State party should: (c) Ensure that appropriate and transparent procedures are in place for Crimean residents to revisit their decision concerning their nationality; consider the possibility of allowing residents to retain their Ukrainian citizenship even if they are...

23. (...) The State party should:

(c) Ensure that appropriate and transparent procedures are in place for Crimean residents to revisit their decision concerning their nationality; consider the possibility of allowing residents to retain their Ukrainian citizenship even if they are interested in Russian citizenship;

(d) Ensure that Crimean residents who retained their Ukrainian nationality are not discriminated against in any sphere of public life and are granted full access to public services on equal terms;

      (...)

Nationality - Other
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Doc. CCPR/C/RUS/CO/7
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Cote d'Ivoire

22. (...) The State party should step up measures to expedite the registration of children who remain unregistered. It should also reform and modernize its Civil Registry to ensure that births are systematically registered throughout the territory of the State party. The State party should,...

22. (...) The State party should step up measures to expedite the registration of children who remain unregistered. It should also reform and modernize its Civil Registry to ensure that births are systematically registered throughout the territory of the State party. The State party should, in addition, continue to mount public and family awareness-raising campaigns concerning birth registration.

Birth registration
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Doc. CCPR/C/CIV/CO/1