Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child 88th Pre-Sessional Working Group 08 -12 February 2021 South Africa 01 November 2020

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Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child – 88 South Africa

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Description: The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Centre for Child Law and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) made this joint submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), on the right to a nationality and human rights challenges pertaining to statelessness in South Africa.

This submission focuses on: I. Access to citizenship; II. Access to birth registration; III. Blocked IDs and resultant barriers in accessing citizenship; and IV. Lack of a statelessness determination procedure.

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Submitting Organisations: Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Centre for Child Law and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion