Chapter III.
PLEDGES
6. Work to support efforts to encourage voluntary repatriation,
local integration and resettlement, whenever feasible, in a comprehensive approach to finding durable solutions. And more
specifically by supporting sustainable reintegration of returnees
through, for example, access to employment, education and social services.
7. Take necessary measures at all levels to enable asylum-seekers/
refugees to access basic services and enjoy their economic, social and cultural rights including free and fair access to the national labour market, the recognition of refugees' school and
vocational diplomas, access to durable residence status, and
the development of literacy programmes and adult education
opportunities.
8. Prevent statelessness by reviewing nationality laws and procedures
relating to the acquisition of nationality in line with the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and other internationally recognized documentation, and compile data on the number
of stateless persons within the country during the next population
census due in 2012.
9. Take all measures to ensure a lawful birth registration for all children of refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons.
SENEGAL
PLEGE FORM
The Government of the Republic of Senegal pledges to:
1. Correct gender discrimination in its nationality law in order to enable Senegalese women to transmit their nationality to their foreign spouse and to their children born of a foreign father;
2. Reform law No. 1968-27 on refugee status in order to better comply with new international norms regarding refugees.
SIERRA LEONE
PLEDGE FORM
Pledges relating to asylum-seekers and refugees
As of 1 January 2011, Sierra Leone was hosting 8,573 Persons of Concern, of
which 8,363 were refugees and 210 asylum-seekers. Of the refugees, 8,341
were Liberian, 16 Ivorian, while 6 were of other nationalities.
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