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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 4th

Monaco

97.67 Take the necessary measures so that national legislation guarantees that women and men enjoy equal rights in obtaining, maintaining and transmitting nationality.

97.67 Take the necessary measures so that national legislation guarantees that women and men enjoy equal rights in obtaining, maintaining and transmitting nationality.

Recommending State: Argentina

Recommendation Accepted

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Gender Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. A/HRC/56/13
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

South Africa

21. The Committee notes the progress in birth registration over the past decade and the setting up of offices at major hospitals where birth certificates can be issued directly. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous...

21. The Committee notes the progress in birth registration over the past decade and the setting up of offices at major hospitals where birth certificates can be issued directly. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous recommendations10 and recommends that the State party:

(a) Remove barriers to birth registration and adopt measures to ensure that all children are properly registered at birth, and in particular:

(i) Ensure that legislation, regulations, directives, circulars and standard operating procedures are brought in line with the court judgments; (ii) Remove fees for late registration after 30 days after birth; (iii) Withdraw the requirement for DNA paternity testing for children born to unmarried South African fathers and foreign, undocumented or deceased mothers; (iv) Simplify the birth registration of orphaned and abandoned children by relatives and other caregivers; (v) Increase the number and reach of the mobile registration units for children born in rural areas.

(b) Address existing cases of blocked IDs, particularly those affecting children, and ensure that children whose parents’ IDs have been blocked or have no ID are not stateless and their parents are able to register their birth;

(c) Adopt regulations concerning the practical and administrative steps required for children to acquire citizenship under sections 2 (2) and 4 (3) of the Citizenship Act and ensure that regulations under section 4 (3) do not exclude foreign children with asylum-seeking or refugee parents and children of undocumented or irregular migrants;

(d) Ensure that lack of birth registration does not hinder children’s access to social and child protection services;

(e) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

Access to nationality/Naturalization Birth registration Discrimination - Other International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/ZAF/CO/3-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Lithuania

23. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, and while welcoming the amendments to the Citizenship Law, the Committee urges the State party to take the necessary steps to introduce legislative provisions to provide for the automatic granting of Lithuanian citizenship...

23. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, and while welcoming the amendments to the Citizenship Law, the Committee urges the State party to take the necessary steps to introduce legislative provisions to provide for the automatic granting of Lithuanian citizenship at birth to persons born on Lithuanian territory who would otherwise be stateless.

Born on territory Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/LTU/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Russia

17. Taking note of targets 5. 1 and 10.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous concluding observations and recommends that the State party: (...) (b) Prevent discrimination against children in marginalized and disadvantaged situations, including children...

17. Taking note of targets 5. 1 and 10.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recalls its previous concluding observations and recommends that the State party: (...)

(b) Prevent discrimination against children in marginalized and disadvantaged situations, including children belonging to minority groups, Roma children, the children of irregular migrant workers, the children of stateless persons, girls in the North Caucasus and children who do not possess permanent residence registration;

20. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee urges the State party to ensure that all children, including children born to Roma, refugee and asylum-seeking mothers with non-Russian passports or without identity documents born in its territory, are registered at birth and issued with a standard birth certificate. The Committee also recommends that the State party take measures to prevent and reduce statelessness and to protect the rights of stateless children and consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

46. While recalling that the State party’s obligations under the Convention apply not only in the territory of the State party but also in all other territory over which the State party exercises effective control, the Committee urges the State party:

(e) To ensure that no child is deprived of their Ukrainian nationality in violation of their rights under the Convention and that their identity, name and family relations are preserved and protected;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Loss/Deprivation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/RUS/CO/6-7
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