Compilation of recommendations relating to statelessness made during the Second Cycle (13th - 16th sessions)
of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review
Note: This document is for information purposes only. It summarizes the recommendations made during the UPR but is not exhaustive and does not
contain all information pertaining to each recommendation. The official record of UPR recommendations remains the report adopted by the UPR
Working Group established to review each United Member State. These reports can be found at www.ohchr.org.
13th session: 21 May – 4 June 2012
14th session: 22 October – 5 November 2012
15th session: 21 January – 1 February 2013
16th session: 22 April – 3 May 2013
Number of recommendations:
Number of recommendations by session:
103
13th (16), 14th (34), 15th (30), 16th (20 with others pending)
Number of recommendations by theme:
Accession to the Statelessness Conventions - 20
General recommendations on prevention and reduction of statelessness and protection of stateless persons - 5
Specific recommendations on nationality, including reduction of statelessness, prevention of statelessness among children and right of
women to confer nationality - 22
Birth registration - 55
Access to ID-papers/ Discrimination as regards issuance of ID-papers - 1
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