ISI Database on Statelessness and
Human Rights

Connecting nationality, statelessness and human rights. Explore and compare information from the international human rights monitoring systems to promote a human rights-based approach to nationality and statelessness.

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Number of results found: 2282

Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

27. The Committee is concerned about the situation of Khmer Krom and ethnic Vietnamese people who have been residing in Cambodia for generations and who have been left stateless or lack Cambodian identity documents.(...) The State party should take all measures necessary to ensure the full...

27. The Committee is concerned about the situation of Khmer Krom and ethnic Vietnamese people who have been residing in Cambodia for generations and who have been left stateless or lack Cambodian identity documents.(...)

The State party should take all measures necessary to ensure the full enjoyment of Covenant rights by all residents, including stateless persons. It should also facilitate access to identification documentation. In addition, the State party should guarantee the right of stateless children who were born in the territory of Cambodia to stateless parents to acquire a nationality.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation Nationality/Identity documentation Born on territory

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.9. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

131.9. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Portugal

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.9. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

131.9. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Azerbaijan

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.9. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

131.9. Accede to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Recommending State: Paraguay

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

131.4. Consider the possibility of ratifying ICRMW (1990), and acceding to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961).

131.4. Consider the possibility of ratifying ICRMW (1990), and acceding to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961).

Recommending State: Ecuador

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

148.110. Pursue the process already undertaken of children’s civil registration.

148.110. Pursue the process already undertaken of children’s civil registration.

Recommending State: Equatorial Guinea

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

84.55. Strengthen the measures aimed at guaranteeing gender equality, in particular with regard to the transfer of Kiribati nationality to the children of Kiribati women born abroad, in compliance with article 9, paragraph 2, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

84.55. Strengthen the measures aimed at guaranteeing gender equality, in particular with regard to the transfer of Kiribati nationality to the children of Kiribati women born abroad, in compliance with article 9, paragraph 2, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Accepted

Born abroad Gender

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

84.97. Ensure birth registration is available to all its citizens and provide free, inclusive and compulsory education for all children.

84.97. Ensure birth registration is available to all its citizens and provide free, inclusive and compulsory education for all children.

Recommending State: Sierra Leone

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

96.31 Improve the civil registration system in order to register all children at birth.

96.31 Improve the civil registration system in order to register all children at birth.

Recommending State: Türkiye

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

113.58. Ensure that birth registration is effectively implemented and enforced by allocating sufficient human and financial resources to the National Identity and Civil Registry Department to promote the effectiveness of birth registration systems and processes.

113.58. Ensure that birth registration is effectively implemented and enforced by allocating sufficient human and financial resources to the National Identity and Civil Registry Department to promote the effectiveness of birth registration systems and processes.

Recommending State: Latvia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration