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Colombia

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…

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

In Costa Rica, Ngäbe‑Büglé parents have been denied birth registration for their children if they…

Legal and administrative obstacles for foreign parents with precarious status

In Costa Rica, children of Nicaraguan migrants have difficulties accessing birth registration. Costa Rica has…

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…

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

In Côte d’Ivoire, two civil wars have been fought over questions of national identity and…

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

In Côte D’Ivoire, ethnic discrimination continues to affect whether and how the births of the…

Registering minorities and stateless persons as foreigners

Over 25% of the population in Côte D’Ivoire are registered as ‘foreigners,’ even though they…

Intergenerational statelessness among the migrant-descended / minority groups

Descendants of migrant workers have been stateless in Côte D’Ivoire for generations. Most workers were…

Gender + religious + ethnic discrimination

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

Administrative blockage for children of mixed status parents

A stakeholder submission to the 2024 UPR reported that when a child is born in…