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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Honduras

31. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that all births are registered in the State party, including in rural areas, indigenous communities and in communities of African descent. It also recommends that the State party ensure that all children born in exceptional situations,...

31. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that all births are registered in the State party, including in rural areas, indigenous communities and in communities of African descent. It also recommends that the State party ensure that all children born in exceptional situations, including in a migration context or in border areas, are registered in the National Registry of Persons and provided with personal documents. It also recommends that the State party include a gender perspective in the mechanisms monitoring return processes for child migrants and their effect on family reunification.

Birth registration
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Estonia

25. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Establish a statelessness determination procedure, in line with articles 2 and 9 of the Convention and its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of...

25. The Committee recommends that the State party:
(a) Establish a statelessness determination procedure, in line with articles 2 and 9 of the Convention and its general recommendation No. 32 (2014) on the gender-related dimensions of refugee status, asylum, nationality and statelessness of women, in order to expedite naturalization;
(b) Fast-track the naturalization of children with undetermined citizenship in the 15-18 age category;
(c) Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the European Convention on Nationality.

Identification and determination procedures Access to nationality/Naturalization International Instruments
Human Rights Committee (CCPR)

Moldova

12. The State party should ensure that all individuals belonging to groups that have faced discrimination in the past are effectively protected from violations of their rights under the Covenant, including by: (...) (b) Strengthening its efforts to combat discrimination and...

12. The State party should ensure that all individuals belonging to groups that have faced discrimination in the past are effectively protected from violations of their rights under the Covenant, including by:

(...)

(b) Strengthening its efforts to combat discrimination and marginalization of Roma, including by allocating sufficient human and financial resources to implement effectively the new Roma action plan for the period 2016-2020, and ensuring that all Roma have access to identity documents;

(...)

Nationality/Identity documentation
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Suriname

17. The Committee recommends that the State party continue to strengthen efforts to ensure that all children born in its territory are registered and provided with official birth certificates, including by streamlining birth registration in the interior areas of the State party through,...

17. The Committee recommends that the State party continue to strengthen efforts to ensure that all children born in its territory are registered and provided with official birth certificates, including by streamlining birth registration in the interior areas of the State party through, among others, local registry offices, mobile units and outreach programmes. The Committee also recommends that the State party carry out awareness-raising programmes and campaigns on the importance of registering the birth of all children, including children born to migrant workers in both regular and irregular situations. The Committee further recommends that the State party consider acceding to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

Birth registration International Instruments
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Ethiopia

42. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen the birth registration system to ensure that every newborn child with disabilities in all areas of the country, in particular those living in remote and rural areas and those living in refugee camps, are registered immediately upon...

42. The Committee recommends that the State party strengthen the birth registration system to ensure that every newborn child with disabilities in all areas of the country, in particular those living in remote and rural areas and those living in refugee camps, are registered immediately upon birth.

Birth registration
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Bolivia

48. The Committee urges the State party to guarantee all persons with disabilities the right to be registered, and to train the staff of official institutions to register all persons with disabilities, particularly in indigenous communities and in remote and rural areas.

48. The Committee urges the State party to guarantee all persons with disabilities the right to be registered, and to train the staff of official institutions to register all persons with disabilities, particularly in indigenous communities and in remote and rural areas.

Birth registration
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Sierra Leone

16. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Continue its efforts to register all children, especially those in rural areas; (b) Ensure the...

16. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Continue its efforts to register all children, especially those in rural areas;

(b) Ensure the integration of birth registration into the general civil registration reform programme. 

Birth registration
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Nauru

53. The Committee urges the State party to immediately: (g) Consider acceding to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

53. The Committee urges the State party to immediately:

(g) Consider acceding to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

International Instruments
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

South Africa

24. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Place strong focus on the eradication of structural inequality and discrimination in all legislative, policy and programmatic measures to advance the rights of the child, paying particular attention to children living with HIV/AIDS,...

24. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Place strong focus on the eradication of structural inequality and discrimination in all legislative, policy and programmatic measures to advance the rights of the child, paying particular attention to children living with HIV/AIDS, children with disabilities, indigenous children, stateless children, migrant, asylum- seeking and refugee children, children in street situations, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children and children with albinism, and to the accumulative impact of multiple discrimination;

32. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration, the Committee strongly recommends that the State party:

(a) Review and amend all legislation and regulations relevant to birth registration and nationality to ensure their full conformity with the Convention, including through the removal of requirements that may have punitive or discriminatory impacts on certain groups of children;

(b) Put in place regulations to grant nationality to all children under the jurisdiction of the State party who are stateless or are at risk of being stateless;

(c) Carry out regular monitoring and ensure that measures adopted in such legislation, regulations and guidelines guarantee the birth registration of all children in the State party, including non-nationals;

(d) Systematically identify all undocumented children currently residing in child and youth care centres in all parts of the State party and ensure their access to a birth certificate and a nationality;

(e) Ensure that a lack of birth registration does not hinder access to child protection services and basic social services, while enhancing its efforts for universal birth registration;

(f) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, of 1954, and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, of 1961;

(g) Seek technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and UNICEF, among others, for the implementation of these recommendations.

 

62. With reference to its general comment No. 6 (2005) on treatment of unaccompanied and separated children outside their country of origin and to the conclusion of the day of general discussion held in 2012 on the rights of all children in the context of international migration, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(b) Expedite the development and implementation of a protocol to streamline the delivery of timely child-protection services to migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children, including services for

(i) registration and issuance of identity documents;

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation Nationality/Identity documentation Foundlings/Unaccompanied children Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Implementing measures - Other
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Philippines

36. The Committee recommends that the State party take all steps necessary to ensure that all children, including indigenous children, Muslim children and children of overseas Filipino workers, are registered, including through the implementation of Presidential Proclamation No. 1106 of 2015...

36. The Committee recommends that the State party take all steps necessary to ensure that all children, including indigenous children, Muslim children and children of overseas Filipino workers, are registered, including through the implementation of Presidential Proclamation No. 1106 of 2015 and through diplomatic relations with countries of destination of overseas Filipino workers.

Birth registration