Annex: Compendium of pledges delivered at the HLS
Year of
completion
expected by
the State
Relevant Action
of the Global
Action Plan/
Thematic Focus
2020
7
The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby undertakes to
adopt its National Action Plan for the Eradication of Statelessness to
provide a more formal and structured implementing framework to the
commitments.
2019
Other (National
Action Plan)
The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to
introduce into its nationality law a provision providing for the conferral of
Ivorian nationality to children from unknown parents, stateless parents,
who are born or found on its territory who would otherwise be stateless.
2022
2
The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to reform
the provision of the nationality law providing that a woman, unlike a man,
may only confer her nationality to her children if she is unmarried, divorced
or widowed.
2021
3
The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to repeal
the provision of its Nationality Law providing that the deprivation of the
Ivorian nationality to a man may be extended to his spouse and minor
children, regardless of their own responsibility for the commission of the
offence punished.
2021
Other
The Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire hereby commits to
validate the existing qualitative and quantitative studies with a view to
deepening them in order to accurately identify the number of confirmed
stateless persons and persons in the process of becoming stateless, living
on its territory, with a view to understanding their situation and finding a
definitive solution to their problem.
2020
10
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hereby commits
to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and
the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.
2019
9
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hereby commits
to reform the system of civil registry and production of statistics on vital
events, take initiatives such as identifying cases of statelessness and
persons at risk of statelessness, institutionalize the collection of data on
stateless persons and persons at risk, and prevent statelessness through
the establishment of national mechanisms, including civil registration/
issuance of national identity documents.
2024
7, 8, 10
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo hereby commits
to bring its legal framework in line with the provisions of the abovementioned statelessness conventions and ensure compliance with the
international standards and principles on nationality and the prevention of
statelessness.
2021
Other
State
Pledge
The Costa Rican Government undertakes to reinforce the mechanisms for
the registration of all births in the country, increasing efforts for the
registration of births in border areas, indigenous territories and rural areas
with difficult access. The Costa Rican Government commits to ensure the
presence of workers who will directly assist the population in the field,
specifically in the rural areas of the northern border, through the
mechanism "Model of differentiated care for the prevention of
statelessness in indigenous areas and borders".
Côte d’Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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