ICCPR Recommendations 2024, paragraph 47
Plain English recommendation
Government should:
(a) Review its laws around the denial of citizenship on terrorism grounds to ensure it includes proper safeguards. It should follow the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality;
(b) Make sure that laws and practices protect people from becoming stateless due to citizenship deprivation. All decisions of this kind should go through fair legal proceedings and should be subject to judicial review. Everyone, whether in the country or outside of its jurisdiction, should have proper access to an independent appeals process;
(c) Increase action to quickly repatriate all its nationals and their families who are in conflict zones using a clear, fair procedure. This procedure must respect the child’s best interests and it must provide access to rehabilitation services and care upon repatriation.
Original UN recommendation
Bearing in mind the Committee’s previous recommendation, the State party should:
(a) Review the legislative framework to ensure that the denial of citizenship, on terrorism grounds, includes appropriate procedural safeguards and is consistent with the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality;
(b) Ensure that, in law and in practice, the necessary safeguards are in place to guarantee that decisions of deprivation of citizenship do not render individuals stateless, and that all decisions are subject to judicial review and fully respect the right to fair legal proceedings, ensuring that all individuals, whether located within or outside a jurisdiction of the State party, have adequate access to an independent appeals procedure;
(c) Intensify its efforts to swiftly repatriate all its nationals who are currently in armed conflict zones, along with their children and other family members, by means of a clear and fair procedure that respects the principle of the best interests of the child and provides adequate access to rehabilitation services and care upon repatriation.
Date of UN examination
03/05/2024
Original UN document
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