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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Gabon

25. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen the citizenship and social protection programme (2020) to encourage the timely registration of births and issuance of birth certificates, prioritizing the registration of births of girls with disabilities; (b) Expedite the...

25. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Strengthen the citizenship and social protection programme (2020) to encourage the timely registration of births and issuance of birth certificates, prioritizing the registration of births of girls with disabilities;

(b) Expedite the planned opening of civil status offices in hospitals to facilitate birth registration within the deadlines set out in article 169 of the Civil Code;

(c) Raise awareness among both civil registry staff and the general public of article 169 of the Civil Code which provides that birth registration in the civil registry is free of charge in all circumstances;

(d) Ensure that all women receive national identity cards, prioritizing disadvantaged groups of women;

(e) Expedite the process of acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/GAB/CO/7
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Uganda

36. With reference to 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) Facilitate birth registration and the registration of refugee and asylum...

36. With reference to 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) Facilitate birth registration and the registration of refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls through the use of modern information and communications technology, simplify and ensure affordable birth registration procedures and deploy more mobile teams to issue birth certificates in rural and remote areas and within indigenous communities;

(b) Collect data on stateless women and girls, disaggregated by age, ethnicity and disability, and provide such data in its next periodic report;

(c) Ratify the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961.

Birth registration International Instruments Data Collection/Monitoring/Reporting
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/UGA/CO/8-9
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Dominican Republic

30. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Review its nationality legislation (in particular arts. 3 and 4 of the Naturalization Act of 1948) and the General Migration Act of 2004 to eliminate discriminatory provisions and ensure that every child born in the Dominican Republic...

30. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Review its nationality legislation (in particular arts. 3 and 4 of the Naturalization Act of 1948) and the General Migration Act of 2004 to eliminate discriminatory provisions and ensure that every child born in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican man and a woman who is not a Dominican national, including a woman of Haitian origin, is entitled to Dominican nationality;

(b) Take steps to ensure that any child born in the Dominican Republic from a woman who is not a Dominican national, including a woman of Haitian origin, is not made stateless;

(c) Address the backlog in registration and ensure that all children born in the State party are registered immediately after birth and at no cost, and ensure their right to a nationality;

(d) Remove all barriers, in law and in practice, to registering descendants of Dominican men and women who are non-nationals or affected by Constitutional Court ruling No. 168-13, in the ordinary birth register for Dominicans, and ensure that they have access to the Dominican nationality regardless of the nationality or migration status of the mother;

(e) Promote the approval of the draft law to amend Law No. 659 on Records of Civil Status aimed at extending the deadlines for the timely registration of births to 180 days, and cover the costs related to DNA tests required by the Central Electoral Board in order to ensure that all children born in the State party are registered in the ordinary birth register for Dominicans.

Remedy/Reparation (Forced) migration context Access to nationality/Naturalization Born on territory Birth registration Race/Ethnicity Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/DOM/CO/8
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Panama

32. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Reform its birth registration and identity procedure, with a view to creating an equal and accessible birth registration and identity procedure for women and their children, and give full effect to the 1954 and 1961 conventions relating...

32. The Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Reform its birth registration and identity procedure, with a view to creating an equal and accessible birth registration and identity procedure for women and their children, and give full effect to the 1954 and 1961 conventions relating to the status of stateless persons, recognizing the legal status of children born to undocumented women;

(b) Establish criteria and gender-sensitive mechanisms throughout all procedures for the recognition of the condition of statelessness and support for stateless persons by the State.

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Identification and determination procedures Remedy/Reparation Nationality/Identity documentation Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/PAN/CO/8
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Peru

32. The Committee recommends that the State party remove the requirement of parents’ official documentation for the issuance of birth certificates and ensure that civil registry staff issue birth certificates to all children born in the State party, without exception.

32. The Committee recommends that the State party remove the requirement of parents’ official documentation for the issuance of birth certificates and ensure that civil registry staff issue birth certificates to all children born in the State party, without exception.

Birth registration
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Doc. CEDAW/C/PER/CO/9
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Lebanon

12. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendations ( CEDAW/C/LBN/CO/4-5 , para. 16) and urges the State party to expedite its efforts towards withdrawing its reservations to the Convention, in particular to articles 9 (2), on equal rights with respect to the nationality of children,...

12. The Committee reiterates its previous recommendations ( CEDAW/C/LBN/CO/4-5 , para. 16) and urges the State party to expedite its efforts towards withdrawing its reservations to the Convention, in particular to articles 9 (2), on equal rights with respect to the nationality of children, and 16 (1) (c)–(d) and (f)–(g), on equality in marriage and family relations, which are incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention and constitute an obstacle to the implementation of the Convention as a whole, as the Committee has already stated in its general recommendations No. 21 (1994) on equality in marriage and family relations and No. 29 (2013) on the economic consequences of marriage, family relations and their dissolution.

36. Recalling its previous recommendation ( CEDAW/C/LBN/CO/4-5 , para. 16), the Committee recommends that the State party repeal Decree No. 15 and adopt legislation to ensure equal rights of women and men to confer their nationality to their foreign spouses and children.

Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Doc. CEDAW/C/LBN/CO/6
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Uzbekistan

28. 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: (a) Amend the Law on Citizenship, granting citizenship to children born in the territory...

28. 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:

(a) Amend the Law on Citizenship, granting citizenship to children born in the territory of Uzbekistan who would otherwise become stateless and making the loss or renunciation of nationality contingent on possession or acquisition of another nationality, and allow reacquisition of nationality for women who would otherwise become stateless;

(b) Ensure that girls and boys born in the territory of the State party are registered at birth and have access to Uzbek nationality and identity documents, regardless of their parents’ consent, nationality, or residence or marital status, and that loss or renunciation of nationality is contingent on the possession or acquisition of another nationality;

(...)

(d) Ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Loss/Deprivation Nationality/Identity documentation Born on territory Birth registration International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. CEDAW/C/UZB/CO/6

Uzbekistan

64. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government of Uzbekistan to: (e) Accede to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and bring national legislation and...

64. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government of Uzbekistan to:

(e) Accede to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, and bring national legislation and practices into line with these international standards;

International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action
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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/49/45/Add.1
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Madagascar

20. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee strongly urges the State party to: (a) Take steps to reverse the current downward trend of birth registrations in the country, including by allocating adequate resources for implementation of the civil...

20. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee strongly urges the State party to:

(a) Take steps to reverse the current downward trend of birth registrations in the country, including by allocating adequate resources for implementation of the civil registration and vital statistics national strategic plan and making concerted efforts, such as enabling late and free of charge registrations and increasing birth registration in areas with very low rates, especially in the region of Atsimo Andrefana;

(b) Amend its law on nationality in order to provide legal safeguards against statelessness at birth and to allow children adopted by a Malagasy mother and foreign father to gain the nationality;

(c) Consider acceding to the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954 and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness of 1961;

(d) 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.

Adoption/Surrogacy Birth registration Gender International Instruments Legislative/Judicial/Administrative action Implementing measures - Other
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/MDG/CO/5-6
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Netherlands

18.     The Committee is concerned that conditions under which stateless children may apply for Dutch nationality under the present Nationality Act, which among others requires three years of legal residency, are very strict. Recalling its previous recommendations, the Committee recommends...

18.     The Committee is concerned that conditions under which stateless children may apply for Dutch nationality under the present Nationality Act, which among others requires three years of legal residency, are very strict. Recalling its previous recommendations, the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a)        Ensure that all children born in Aruba and Curaçao, including those with an irregular residence status, have access to birth registration and/or identity cards, and strengthen legal pathways to acquire a nationality;

(b)        Guarantee all stateless children born or present within the territory of the State party the right to acquire nationality irrespective of residency status;

(c)        Implement measures for ensuring that children with an “unknown” nationality, a status that leaves them unable to be registered as stateless and obtain international protection, do not remain in such a status for a prolonged period of time;

(d)        Ensure the access to education, health, and social services for stateless children and children with an “unknown” nationality;

(e)        Ensure that no child, including those between 16 and 17 years of age, is deprived of his or her nationality for actions that are considered to constitute a threat to national security, and also consider children’s best interests when such withdrawals of nationality are imposed on parents.

37. (...) (c) Ensure that the rights of asylum-seeking and refugee children in all constituent countries are guaranteed under legislation, including by: (i) ensuring that such children are registered and issued with legal identification documents;

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Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation Stateless Persons - Other Loss/Deprivation (Forced) migration context Access to nationality/Naturalization Nationality/Identity documentation Born on territory Birth registration Children - Other
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Statelessness Doc. CRC/C/NLD/CO/5-6