Birth registration and the prevention of statelessness in Europe
29
Bundesgerichtshof Beschluss vom 17. 5. 2017 – XII ZB 126/15 (in German): http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgibin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&az=XII%20ZB%20126/15&nr=78613
30
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
31
Arpi Avetisyan and Patrícia Cabral, ‘Celebrating progress in the protection of rainbow families, but more needs to be done��:
https://www.statelessness.eu/updates/blog/celebrating-progress-protection-rainbow-families-more-needs-be-done
32
Court
of
Justice
of
the
European
Union
(2022)
Rzecznik
Praw
Obywatelskich
C-2/21
ECLI:EU:C:2022:502: https://caselaw.statelessness.eu/caselaw/cjeu-rzecznik-praw-obywatelskich-c-221
33
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
34
United
Nations
Ukraine,
Briefing
Note:
Birth
Registration,
January
2020:
https://www.unhcr.org/ua/wpcontent/uploads/sites/38/2020/03/Briefing-Note-Birth-registration_2020.pdf
35
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
36
Ibid, para. 11
37
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
38
Ibid
39
ibid
40
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
41
Council of Europe (2009) Recommendation to Member States on the Nationality of Children, Principle 6.
42
ibid
43
ibid
44
UN Human Rights Committee, Views adopted by the Committee under article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol, concerning
communication
No.
2918/2016,
20
January
2021,
available
at:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR/C/130/D/2918/2016&Lang=en
45
Information about forthcoming ANUCSA guidance provided by UNHCR Italy in May 2020.
46
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/
47
Genovese v. Malta, application no. 53124/09, European Court of Human Rights: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-106785
48
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
49
Austria, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, and Slovenia do not have mandatory
reporting requirements for public authorities that could prevent migrants from approaching birth registration authorities and there is
no evidence that this happens in practice.
50
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
51
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).
52
See
Portugal’s
Statelessness
Index
country
survey
for
more
information:
https://index.statelessness.eu/sites/default/files/Statelessness_Index_Survey_Portugal.pdf
53
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
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