HRC resolution adopted on equality in nationality rights in law and in practice during the 35th session

On 13 July 2023, the Human Rights Council adopted as orally revised without a vote a new resolution on the right to nationality. This resolution seeks to tackle the issue of discrimination in nationality laws, where in a number of countries, mothers and fathers cannot pass on their nationality to their children. This creates risks of statelessness for children and encourages inter-generational statelessness contrary to their identity rights, notably in Articles 7-8 of the CRC. Child Identity Protection (CHIP) had the privilege of providing input into an earlier draft of the resolution highlighting the connection of barriers to nationality with discriminatory birth registration laws and that fathers in addition to mothers can also face discrimination. CHIP also recommended that children born from conflict related sexual violence and those born from surrogacy be included as groups particularly at risk of statelessness, among the others already listed. CHIP welcomes this resolution, hoping that all States especially those that led in the drafting from the Permanent Missions of Australia, Colombia, Mexico, Slovakia, and the United States of America will invest the necessary resources for its full application.

Source : https://undocs.org/Home/Mobile?FinalSymbol=A%2FHRC%2FRES%2F53%2F16&Language=E&DeviceType=Desktop&LangRequested=False and https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session53/res-dec-stat (see resolution A/HRC/53/L.28/Rev.1 (as orally revised))