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Bolivia

Disability + ethnic discrimination in contexts of mobility

In Bolivia, disability is made “invisible” in various ways, including not always registering births of…

Discrimination against LGBTQ+ parents

In Bolivia, transgender birthing parents face barriers to obtaining accurate birth certificates for their children….

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

In Brazil, Indigenous people face obstacles to registering their children. These obstacles include geographical isolation…

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

In Canada, Indigenous people have struggled to have their names legally recognized on birth certificates…

Intergenerational statelessness among the migrant-descended / minority groups

Ethnic Vietnamese within Cambodia face difficulties acquiring birth certificates and nationality for themselves and their…

Marital status discrimination

In 2017, the CRC noted that Cameroon places additional conditions on children born out of…

Administrative blockage for children of mixed status parents

Cameroon appears to have gender equality in ability to transmit nationality to one’s children, but…

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

Cameroon gained full sovereignty over the Bakassi Peninsula in 2013 after a territorial dispute with…

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

In Cameroon several conflicts are happening concurrently, escalating with the Anglophone Crisis in 2016. This…

Administrative earmarking

In 2015, Colombia began receiving an influx of Venezuelan migrants and refugees who had difficulty…

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…