Annex: Compendium of pledges delivered at the HLS
Year of
completion
expected by
the State
Relevant Action
of the Global
Action Plan/
Thematic Focus
The Government of Georgia hereby commits: The “door-to-door” campaign
to identify and document stateless persons will be undertaken.
2021
10
The Government of Georgia hereby commits to work with UNHCR to raise
awareness and foster common understanding about statelessness in an
inclusive manner.
2021
Other
(awareness
raising/training)
The Government of Georgia hereby commits to facilitate naturalization for
stateless persons by introducing legislative amendment to the law on
Citizenship of Georgia aimed at reducing the 10-year residence period
required for naturalization by half.
2021
6
The Government of Georgia hereby commits: Georgia will include the
stateless status applicants in the emergency outpatient and emergency
inpatient care of the State universal healthcare program.
2021
6
The Government of Georgia hereby commits: Stateless status applicants
will enjoy the right to State free legal aid. To this end, applicants will
receive both legal counselling and representation to the administrative
bodies and courts by the state funded Legal Aid Service.
2021
6
The Government of Georgia hereby commits: The fee for statelessness
determination procedures will be reduced in half in order to increase
accessibility of the status determination procedure.
2021
6
2019
9
The Government of Ghana hereby commits: To accede to the two
Statelessness Conventions by the end of 2021.
2021
9
The Government of Ghana hereby commits: To support efforts of UNHCR
and UNFPA in identifying groups at risk of Statelessness in Ghana.
2021
10
The Government of the Republic of Guinea hereby commits to develop
subsidiary legal acts to implement provisions of the Civil Code, in particular
for securing nationality certificates.
2022
8
The Government of the Republic of Guinea hereby commits to monitor the
implementation of the National Strategy for the Reform and Modernization
of Civil Registry in Guinea 2018-2022.
2022
7
The Government of the Republic of Guinea hereby commits to the adoption
by 2021 of a law on the status of stateless persons and the statelessness
determination procedure.
2021
6
State
Pledge
Georgia
Germany
The Government hereby commits: Germany will examine its reservations
towards the Convention on Statelessness from 1961 which were made
upon ratification and start a review process within our line ministries to
evaluate the necessity of those reservations.
Ghana
Guinea
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