The Netherlands violated child’s right to acquire a nationality, UN Committee finds
GENEVA (29 December 2020) – In a ground-breaking decision, the Human Rights Committee has found that the Netherlands violated a child s rights by registering nationality unknown in his civil records as this left him unable under Dutch law to be registered as stateless and therefore be given international protection as a stateless child.
This is the Committee s first decision on the right of a child to acquire a nationality. It relates to a petition by a child named Denny, who was born in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 2010 to a 21 year-old mother from China.
UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances registers its 1,000th urgent request to locate victims GENEVA (17 December 2020) - The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) has just registered the 1,000th urgent action request, marking a significant milestone for the mechanism. Among registered cases, 49% concern disappearances in Iraq and 42% disappearances in Mexico. An urgent action is a request from CED to a State party to immediately take all necessary measures to search and locate a disappeared person. Established by the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the urgent actions procedure allows families, relatives and representatives of disappeared persons to submit a request to CED after having reported the disappearance to the relevant national authorities.
GENEVA (17 December 2020) - The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) has just registered the 1,000th urgent action request, marking a significant milestone for the mechanism. Among registered cases, 49% concern disappearances in Iraq and 42% disappearances in Mexico. An urgent action is a request from CED to a State party to immediately take all necessary measures to search and locate a disappeared person. Established by the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance , the urgent actions procedure allows families, relatives and representatives of disappeared persons to submit a request to CED after having reported the disappearance to the relevant national authorities.