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Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review 41st Session 4th Cycle 07 - 18 November 2022 South Africa Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town Lawyers for Human Rights Centre for Child Law UCT Refugee Rights Unit Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion 31 March 2022

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Joint Submission to the Human Rights Council – UPR41 South Africa

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Report

Source

Academia : Individual Scholarship
NGO : ISI
NGO : National / Local NGOs

Region

Africa

Country

South Africa

Theme

Acquisition of Nationality by Stateless People
Children

Framework

UN Human Rights system

Description: The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Centre for Child Law, the UCT Refugee Rights Unit and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) made this joint submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in South Africa.

This submission focuses on: I. Unaccompanied or Separated Migrant Children (USMC) and Young Adults; II. Access to Birth Registration; III. Administrative - Procedural Barriers in accessing citizenship; and IV. Implementation of Court Judgments.

UN Body: Human Rights Council

Session: 41

Date of Session

Nov 7, 2022 ~ Nov 18, 2022

Date of submission: Mar 31, 2022

Submitting Organisations: Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, Lawyers for Human Rights, Centre for Child Law, UCT Refugee Rights Unit and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion

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