Treaty Body CEDAW Committee (CEDAW 2019) CEDAW/C/ KHM/CO/6 Findings Nationality 32. The Committee notes that the information provided by the State party that children born to foreign parents who live legally in the State party have the possibility of obtaining birth certificates, which enables them to gain access to education and health care. It remains concerned, however, about reports of difficulties faced by ethnic Vietnamese and Khmer Krom women in obtaining birth certificates for their children born in Cambodia, as well as national identity cards for themselves, which prevents them and their children from gaining access to education, employment, health care and housing. It also expresses concern about the lack of sufficient safeguards to ensure that children born in Cambodia who would otherwise be stateless can acquire Cambodian nationality and have access to identity documents. Recommendations 33. The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Ensure access to Cambodian nationality for all ethnic minority women who meet the conditions for acquiring nationality, particularly women of Vietnamese origin and Khmer Krom women, and ensure that they have access to education, employment, health care and housing; (b) Facilitate access to identity documentation and birth registration and certificates by stateless women and their children and ensure that government officials do not confiscate documents during the process of registration; (c) Ratify the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 34