THEMATIC BRIEFING | MAY 2020 Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe 21 REFERENCES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. https://www.statelessness.eu/ UN Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons 1954, Article 1(1) UNHCR Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons Under the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, Geneva, 2014: https://www.unhcr.org/dach/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2017/04/CH-UNHCR_Handbook-on-Protection-ofStateless-Persons.pdf UNICEF, December 2019, Birth Registration for Every Child by 2030: https://data.unicef.org/resources/birth-registration-for-everychild-by-2030/ ibid The UN Operational Definition of Legal Identity and further information on legal identity are available at: https://unstats.un.org/ legal-identity-agenda/ UNHCR Good Practices Paper - Action 7: Ensuring birth registration for the prevention of statelessness https://www.refworld.org/ docid/5a0ac8f94.html UNICEF, October 2018, Percentage of Children Under Age 5 Whose Births Are Registered (By Sex): https://data.unicef.org/topic/ child-protection/birth-registration/ https://index.statelessness.eu/ UNHCR (2018) Ensuring the right of all children to acquire a nationality: Connecting the Dots between the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness: https://www.refworld.org/docid/52206aa54.html UNHCR Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4: Ensuring Every Child’s Right to Acquire a Nationality through Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness: https://www.refworld.org/docid/50d460c72.html UNHCR and UNICEF (2017) Convention on the Rights of the Child Quick Reference Guide: Statelessness and Human Rights Treaties: https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/wp-content/uploads/UNHCR-CRC-02-UNHCR-UNICEF.pdf See 4 ibid ibid See UNSD, Demographic and Social Statistics, Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographicsocial/crvs/#coverage See 4 ibid Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 7, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 24(2), Council of Europe (2009) Recommendation to Member States on the Nationality of Children, Principle 23, UNHCR Guidelines on Statelessness No. 4 (2012): V(c), UNHCR Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2014-2024: Action 7, UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 Convention on the Rights of the Child UNICEF (2013) Every Child’s Birth Right: Inequities and Trends in Birth Registration: https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/ Birth_Registration_11_Dec_13.pdf For more examples of good practice on birth registration, see UNHCR (2017) Good Practices Paper - Action 7: Ensuring birth registration for the prevention of statelessness: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5a0ac8f94.html Czech Republic Act on Birth Registry no. 301/2000 Sb. 16.6: https://aplikace.mvcr.cz/sbirka-zakonu/SearchResult. aspx?q=301/2000&typeLaw=zakon&what=Cislo_zakona_smlouvy EMN (2020) Statelessness in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/00_eu_inform_statelessness_en.pdf ENS, ISI, ERRC and Tirana Legal Aid Society. Roma Belong: Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in the Western Balkans and Ukraine. February 2018, p. 34: https://www.statelessness.eu/sites/www.statelessness.eu/files/attachments/ resources/roma-belong.pdf Praxis, ENS, ISI and ERRC. Alternative report concerning Serbia to the CEDAW Committee for consideration at the 72nd PreSessional Working Group (23-27 July 2018). July 2018: https://www.statelessness.eu/resources/joint-alternative-report-serbiacommittee-elimination-all-forms-discrimination-against Joint general comment No. 4 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return: https://www.refworld.org/ docid/5a12942a2b.html Joint general comment No. 4 (2017) of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on State obligations regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration in countries of origin, transit, destination and return: https://www.refworld.org/ docid/5a12942a2b.html