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Bangladesh

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

In Bangladesh, ethnic discrimination against Biharis or ‘stranded Pakistanis’, an Urdu-speaking minority group, prevents them…

Legal gender discrimination

While Bangladesh reformed its Citizenship Act in 2009 to allow women to confer nationality to…

Marital status discrimination

In 2009, the CRC expressed concern that in Bangladesh lack of birth registration is a…

Gender-based violence

Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child marriage globally, despite the practice being…

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) the Roma population is the largest national minority group, and…

Blocked access to reproductive healthcare

In 2019, CEDAW expressed concerns around Roma, refugee, and asylum seeking women’s lack of access…

Temporary identity, migration management, and statelessness solutions

Colombia has implemented various registration and regularization campaigns aimed at identifying and documenting Venezuelan migrants…

Expansive legal and administrative interpretation of “in transit” exceptions for all children born to foreigners without status

For almost 20 years, registrars in Chile were found to be recording the children of…

State family planning policies

During China’s one child policy from 1979-2015, unauthorized births were impossible to register without a…

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

The 2019 UPR noted that Cyprus has been known to deny registration and Cypriot nationality…

Expansive legal and administrative interpretation of “in transit” exceptions for all children born to foreigners without status

In the Dominican Republic (DR), an expansive interpretation of “in transit” has been applied to…

Politicized birth registration practices as part of conflict / contests over territory

The Halayeb and the Shalateen triangle in eastern Egypt was claimed by both Egypt and…