Calls upon African States to ratify all relevant international and African human rights treaties,
including the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on
the Reduction of Statelessness;
Requests African States to take the necessary measures to strengthen civil registration
services to ensure the prompt registration of the births of all children on their territory,
without discrimination;
Requests African States to include information on the recognition, respect and
implementation of the right to nationality in their periodic reports presented to the
Commission under Article 62 of the African Charter and Article 26 of the Protocol to the
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa;
Considering the necessity to carry out an in-depth research on issues relating to the right to
nationality:
- Decides to assign the task to the Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum seekers;
Displaced and Migrants in Africa;
- Calls upon civil society and other stakeholders to give full support to the mandate of the
Special Rapporteur.