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December 30, 2020
A boy plays in the playground of an asylum seeking centre in Baexem in the Netherlands. courtesy UNICEF/Sidra
GENEVA The Netherlands has violated a child’s rights by registering children under the category “nationality unknown” as opposed to Stateless leaving them ineligible to access international protections, the UN Human Rights Committee declared on Tuesday. The right to nationality ensures concrete protection for individuals, in particular children, said committee member Shuichi Furuya.
In what they called “a ground-breaking decision”, the committee’s first on the right of a child to acquire a nationality, the members referred to a petition by a boy named Denny, who in 2010 was born in the Dutch city of Utrecht to a 21-year-old mother from China.
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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.
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