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Law 344/1976 (Article 20-21) on Birth Certificates, Official Gazette of the Hellenic Republic 143/Α/11.06.1976 & its amendments
Bundesgerichtshof Beschluss vom 17. 5. 2017 – XII ZB 126/15 (in German): http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/
rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&az=XII%20ZB%20126/15&nr=78613
NELFA. The Cross-Border Legal Recognition of Rainbow Families Under EU Law. February 2020: http://nelfa.org/inprogress/wpcontent/uploads/2020/02/NELFA-Rainbow-families-and-EU-Law-Tryfonidou-final.pdf
Network of European LGBTIQ* Families Associations (NELFA) Freedom of movement in the European Union: Obstacles, cases,
lawsuits… Available from: http://nelfa.org/inprogress/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/NELFA-fomcasesdoc-2020-1-1.pdf
United Nations Ukraine, Briefing Note: Birth Registration, January 2020: https://www.unhcr.org/ua/wp-content/uploads/
sites/38/2020/03/Briefing-Note-Birth-registration_2020.pdf
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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, 21 December 2012, HCR/GS/12/04, available at: https://www.refworld.org/
docid/50d460c72.html
Ibid, para. 11
Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2; Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 6 (2005) Treatment
of Unaccompanied and Separated Children Outside their Country of Origin IV (b) non-discrimination, available from: https://www.
refworld.org/docid/42dd174b4.html
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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, 21 December 2012, HCR/GS/12/04, para. 20-21, available at: https://www.refworld.
org/docid/50d460c72.html
Council of Europe (2009) Recommendation to Member States on the Nationality of Children, Principle 6.
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Information about forthcoming ANUCSA guidance provided by UNHCR Italy in May 2020.
For further information on gender discriminatory nationality laws and the 25 countries worldwide that prevent women from
passing their nationality to their children on an equal basis with men: https://equalnationalityrights.org/
Genovese v. Malta, application no. 53124/09, European Court of Human Rights: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-106785
Joint General Comment No. 4 (2017 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families &
No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5a12942a2b.html
Austria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia,
Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine do not have mandatory reporting requirements for public which may prohibit migrants from
approaching birth registration authorities, and do not allow this to happen in practice.
Instruction to the Civil Registry Ordinance on the registration of nonnationals with regard to legal stay in the country (January
2011): https://www.bj.admin.ch/content/da%20m/data/bj/gesellschaft/zivilstand/weis%20ungen/weisungen-07/10-11-01-02-%20d.
pdf
Joint General Comment No. 4 (2017 of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families
& No. 23 (2017) of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (21); UN Human Rights Council Resolution 20/4. The Right to a
Nationality: women and children (8).
See Portugal’s Statelessness Index country survey for more information: https://index.statelessness.eu/sites/default/files/
Statelessness_Index_Survey_Portugal.pdf
Art 36 Personenstandsgesetz vom 19. Februar 2007 (BGBl 2007 I, 122), zuletzt geändert durch Artikel 17 des Gesetzes vom
20.November 2019 (BGBl 2019 I, 1626) [Civil Status Act] (in German): https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/pstg/PStG.pdf