Morocco
Born in transit
In Morocco, migrants face obstacles to birth registration in the form of high documentary requirements….
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Morocco
Deficient consular civil registration services
In Morocco, migrant and refugee parents face many difficulties accessing their own consular authorities to…
Morocco
Temporary identity, migration management, and statelessness solutions
Morocco’s temporary migration management schemes have been limited in terms of their impact on migrant…
Myanmar
Disability + ethnic discrimination in contexts of mobility
According to a civil society submission to the CRPD in 2019, approximately 1 in 4…
Namibia
Ad hoc documentation for children of non-resident mothers
In Namibia, women determined not to be ‘ordinarily resident,’ namely Angolan women, are currently issued…
Namibia
Consolidation of postcolonial state control over territorial borders and borderlands through birth registration
In 2024 the CRC recommended that Namibia strengthen efforts to ensure all children have access…
Namibia
Spatial containment and constraints on mobility
In Namibia, birth registration is blocked for children of asylum seekers and refugees. CERD (2008)…
Namibia
Civil registrar discretion
In Namibia, some civil registrars refuse to issue birth certificates to single mothers. Birth registration…
Namibia
Politicized birth registration practices as part of conflict / contests over territory
In Namibia, the Caprivi Strip is one of the regions with the lowest levels of…
Namibia
Harmful social stigma through bureaucratic practice
In Namibia, a deterrent to registering children of single mothers can be stigma, and in…
Nepal
Legal gender discrimination
In 2018, echoing similar recommendations from 2011, CEDAW urged Nepal to amend or repeal all…
Nepal
Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination
According to a 2025 civil society submission to CEDAW, Dalit and Madheshi women in Nepal…