TOPICS ADDRESSED
The nationality and statelessness-related recommendations focused on the following topics:
accession to and implementing the 1954 and/or 1961 Statelessness Conventions; civil registration,
including birth registration (an important tool to prevent statelessness); establishing a statelessness
determination procedure; avoiding arbitrary detention for stateless persons; categorizing
statelessness as a protection status; refraining from deprivation of nationality; and addressing gender
discrimination in nationality laws.
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS BY COUNTRY
The list below summarizes the recommendations made to each State under review, highlighting which
States made recommendations and on what topics (full text of relevant recommendations in annex).
The analysis also notes any important statelessness related issues that were not covered.
Recommendations to Algeria (4)
Recommendations made by Côte d’Ivoire, Uganda, Paraguay, Mexico
2 recommendations on ratifying/acceding the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and incorporating
its provisions in national law. 1 recommendation links to guaranteeing civil registration for children born out of
wedlock, including stateless children. 1 general recommendation focuses on adopting national legislation to
allow for compliance and implementation of international obligations for stateless persons. No
recommendations specifically link to ensuring that that naturalization provisions are not discriminatory
towards people with disabilities. Also, no recommendations focuses on ensuring that all children born on the
territory who would otherwise be stateless, are granted Algerian nationality, in accordance with the provisions
of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Recommendations to Bahrain (12)
Recommendations made by Slovenia, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Philippines, Uruguay, Argentina,
Uganda and Belgium
8 recommendations focus on gender discriminatory nationality law, particularly barriers for women to transmit
their nationality onto their child and their foreign husband. 4 recommendations relate to the practice of
deprivation of nationality of individuals but also (religious) minority groups. No recommendations were made
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