Recommendations
50. Based on the above analysis, the co-submitting organisations urge the Committee on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities to make the following recommendations to Myanmar:
50.1.
Reform the 1982 Citizenship Law in accordance with Myanmar’s international
obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including
removing any eligibility criteria for citizenship that excludes people based on their ethnicity
or a disability, and remove the hierarchised three-types of citizenship.
50.2.
Reform the 2019 Child Rights Law in accordance with Myanmar’s international
obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, so as to
guarantee all children the right to immediate birth registration and the right acquire a
nationality.
50.3.
Ensure the process of digitalising Myanmar’s civil registration and documentation
system acknowledges and responds to the barriers that persons living with disabilities face in
registering births and obtaining citizenship documentation and birth certificates to prevent
entrenching these barriers.
50.4.
Facilitate access to birth registration and citizenship documentation through mobile
offices, particularly in conflict-affected areas and remote and rural areas.
50.5.
Retro fit existing government buildings of the Ministry of Labour, Population and
Immigration, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Home Affairs to meet the needs of disabled
people.
50.6.
Facilitate information campaigns that seek to raise awareness as to the importance of
birth registration, particularly amongst populations living in conflict-affected areas and
remote and rural areas.
50.7.
Provide public transport for persons living with disabilities to travel to government
offices.
50.8.
Facilitate training programs that raise awareness amongst relevant government
officers as to the barriers persons living with disabilities face in obtaining citizenship
documentation, registering births and obtaining birth certificates and the right of persons
living with disabilities to a nationality (and to obtain citizenship documentation and birth
certificates) on an equal basis with others.
50.9.
Facilitate information campaigns that seek to address attitudes and assumptions by
families of persons living with disabilities, including gender-discriminatory attitudes which
impact the ability of persons living with disabilities to enjoy the right to a nationality on an
equal basis with others.
50.10.
Ratify and fully implement the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless
Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the 1951 Convention
relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
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