ISI Database on Statelessness and
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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

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

121.195. Continue efforts to modernize its birth registration system, and evaluate if more steps are needed to ensure access to universal birth registration in order to ensure the rights of children to nationality is adequately protected.

121.195. Continue efforts to modernize its birth registration system, and evaluate if more steps are needed to ensure access to universal birth registration in order to ensure the rights of children to nationality is adequately protected.

Recommending State: Namibia

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

121.193. Continue to modernize its birth registration system and improve access to remote locations, and step up efforts to ensure free and universal birth registration.

121.193. Continue to modernize its birth registration system and improve access to remote locations, and step up efforts to ensure free and universal birth registration.

Recommending State: Brazil

Recommendation Accepted

Birth registration

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

27. The Committee calls upon the State party to institute comprehensive mechanisms to ensure that all children born in the State party, in particular in rural areas, are registered at birth, as a means of preventing statelessness and to ensure their access to citizenship and education,...

27. The Committee calls upon the State party to institute comprehensive mechanisms to ensure that all children born in the State party, in particular in rural areas, are registered at birth, as a means of preventing statelessness and to ensure their access to citizenship and education, health and other basic services.

Birth registration

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

26. The Committee encourages the State party to ensure that its national citizenship legislation complies fully with the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, in particular by providing for the automatic granting of nationality to all children born in Denmark who would otherwise...

26. The Committee encourages the State party to ensure that its national citizenship legislation complies fully with the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, in particular by providing for the automatic granting of nationality to all children born in Denmark who would otherwise be stateless. In doing so, the State party should ensure that its procedures for addressing statelessness are timely and gender sensitive, in accordance with the Committee’s general recommendation No. 32 on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Born on territory Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

31. The Committee recommends that the State party revise its nationality laws in order to remove discrimination against foreign women who have children with Maldivian men out of wedlock with regard to the transmission of nationality.

31. The Committee recommends that the State party revise its nationality laws in order to remove discrimination against foreign women who have children with Maldivian men out of wedlock with regard to the transmission of nationality.

Gender Discrimination - Other Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

32. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/2, para. 56) that the State party: a) Develop disaster management and mitigation plans in response to potential displacement and/or statelessness arising from environmental and climate change and ensure that women,...

32. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/TUV/CO/2, para. 56) that the State party:

a) Develop disaster management and mitigation plans in response to potential displacement and/or statelessness arising from environmental and climate change and ensure that women, including those living on the outer islands, are included and may actively participate in planning and decision making processes concerning their adoption.

Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

29. The Committee recommends that the State party continue its efforts to ensure that all girls and boys are registered. To that end, it recommends that the State party expedite and facilitate procedures for birth registration, ensure that there are no indirect costs and establish specific...

29. The Committee recommends that the State party continue its efforts to ensure that all girls and boys are registered. To that end, it recommends that the State party expedite and facilitate procedures for birth registration, ensure that there are no indirect costs and establish specific goals and timetables for the process.

Birth registration

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

29. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen efforts to ensure that all children are provided with birth certificates free of charge, including through mobile units and outreach programmes in remote areas of the State party.

29. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen efforts to ensure that all children are provided with birth certificates free of charge, including through mobile units and outreach programmes in remote areas of the State party.

Birth registration

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

21. In the light of its general comment No. 14 (2013) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration, the Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to ensure that this right is appropriately integrated and consistently...

21. In the light of its general comment No. 14 (2013) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration, the Committee recommends that the State party strengthen its efforts to ensure that this right is appropriately integrated and consistently applied in all legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings and decisions, as well as in all policies, programmes and projects that are relevant to and have an impact on children. The State party is therefore encouraged to develop procedures and criteria to provide guidance to all relevant persons in authority for determining the best interests of the child in every area—including in the determination of statelessness—and for giving them due weight as a primary consideration.

25. The Committee recommends that the State party review its citizenship legislation and procedures to ensure their full compliance with international standards aimed at the prevention and reduction of statelessness and ensure that all children born in its territory acquire Turkmen nationality, if otherwise they would be stateless, irrespective of the legal status of their parents.

Born on territory Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Awareness raising/Capacity building/Training

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

58. In the light of its general comment No. 11 (2009) on indigenous children and their rights under the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party: (...) ( b ) Strengthen its efforts to ensure that all Afro-Colombian and indigenous children are registered immediately after...

58. In the light of its general comment No. 11 (2009) on indigenous children and their rights under the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(...)

( b ) Strengthen its efforts to ensure that all Afro-Colombian and indigenous children are registered immediately after birth, and to facilitate cost-free registration of those who were not registered at birth;

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Birth registration