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Pakistan

Temporary identity, migration management, and statelessness solutions

Starting in 2006, Pakistan started providing Proof of Registration (PoR) cards to Afghan refugees, which…

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Panama

Blocked access to reproductive healthcare

In Panama, Ngäbe‑Büglé women, mobile Indigenous peoples who often migrate cross-border between Costa Rica and…

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Panama

Intergenerational statelessness among the migrant-descended / minority groups

In Panama, many people from Ngäbe‑Büglé communities, mobile Indigenous peoples who often migrate cross-border between…

Peru

Temporary identity, migration management, and statelessness solutions

Peru requires an alien card, passport, or identity card to obtain a birth certificate for…

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…

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

Hospital documentation practices

Hospitals in Nevis reportedly withhold birth certificates for children until the full cost of childbirth…

Senegal

Legal gender discrimination

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

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Switzerland

Migration enforcement within birth registration process

In Switzerland, children of migrants with irregular status (Sans-Papiers) are at risk of non-registration and…

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…