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sensitive training of public officials, including judges and local leaders, and targeted
outreach to civil society to engage relevant communities;
7.
Urges States to ensure that men and women have equal access to documents
used to prove nationality, in particular passports, identity documents and birth, and where
relevant, marriage certificates;
8.
Calls upon States to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural
and any other barriers, especially those targeting women, that impede access to registration
of vital life events including birth, marriage and death registration, and including late
registration and associated fees, paying due attention to, among others, barriers relating to
poverty, age, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, illiteracy and detention contexts,
and to persons in vulnerable groups, and to remove barriers to birth registration based on
discrimination against unwed mothers;
9.
Also calls upon States to ensure that effective and appropriate remedies are
available to all persons, in particular women and children, whose right to a nationality has
been violated, including restoration of nationality and expedient provision of documentary
proof of nationality by the State responsible for the violation;
10.
Encourages relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council,
including the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in
practice, as well as specialized agencies, funds and programmes, and United Nations
entities, including the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Entity for
Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, and invites treaty bodies, in
coordination with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to
address and highlight issues relating to the right to a nationality and statelessness within
their mandates;
11.
Encourages States to continue to raise these issues in the universal periodic
review process;
12.
Also encourages States to consider acceding to the Convention relating to the
Status of Stateless Persons, the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and other
relevant international human rights conventions if they have not already done so;
13.
Calls upon States to implement their international legal obligations to combat
human trafficking, including the identification of potential victims of trafficking and the
provision of appropriate assistance to stateless persons who may be victims of trafficking,
paying particular attention to the needs and vulnerabilities of trafficked women and
children;
14.
Calls upon all States to ensure that all persons, regardless of their nationality
status, enjoy their human rights and fundamental freedoms;
15.
Encourages States to facilitate, in accordance with their national laws, the
acquisition of nationality by children born on their territories or to their nationals abroad
who would otherwise be stateless;
16.
Urges States to take concrete action to ensure the full and effective
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of its
reviews, and to ensure non-discrimination under the law, including with respect to
nationality;
17.
Recognizes the importance of international cooperation, and encourages
States to request technical assistance, if required and where appropriate, from relevant
United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes and other relevant stakeholders, in
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