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Peru

Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status

In Peru, undocumented migrant parents face barriers to registering their children due to documentary requirements….

Peru

Spatial containment and constraints on mobility

Children born to Venezuelans in camps at the Peruvian border are at risk of non-registration…

Republic of the Congo

Blocked access to reproductive healthcare

In the Republic of the Congo, Indigenous women and girls experience blocked access to reproductive…

Senegal

Legal gender discrimination

In 2012, CERD recognized the intersection of racial discrimination and discrimination against non-citizens in Senegal….

South Africa

Marital status discrimination

South Africa has gender equal nationality laws, but was found to discriminate on the basis…

South Africa

Administrative blockage for children of mixed status parents

South Africa requires DNA testing to prove paternity only in cases involving children born out…

South Korea

Marital status discrimination

In South Korea, according to a 2018 NGO report, legally a child born out of…

South Korea

Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status

In South Korea, the government has refused to register births of children of foreign nationals…

South Korea

Blocked access to reproductive healthcare

In South Korea, disabled women and girls have difficulty accessing reproductive healthcare, which poses a…

South Sudan

Gender inequality in women’s independent access to their own ID

In 2021, CEDAW recommended that South Sudan ensure women are not subject to any additional…

Suriname

Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status

In Suriname blocked access to birth registration for children born to foreign parents has been…

Suriname

Legal gender discrimination

Until 2014, Suriname’s 1975 Law on Nationality and Residence did not allow mothers to confer…