{"id":973,"date":"2020-12-28T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pilp.nu\/?p=973"},"modified":"2023-12-19T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:11:09","slug":"case-won-un-human-rights-committee-condemns-netherlands-for-violations-around-statelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilp.nu\/en\/case-won-un-human-rights-committee-condemns-netherlands-for-violations-around-statelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Case won: UN Human Rights Committee condemns Netherlands for violations around statelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 28, 2020, the UN Human Rights Committee issued a landmark ruling in the case of PILP and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) against the Netherlands regarding a child of unknown nationality, statelessness and the lack of a statelessness recognition procedure in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

We will soon issue a press release from our partners with whom we work on the statelessness case.
\nMore about our statelessness dossier is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And below is the full press release from the Human Rights Committee including a link to the opinion:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Netherlands violated child\u2019s right to acquire a nationality, UN Committee finds<\/em><\/p>\n

GENEVA (29 December 2020) \u2013 In a ground-breaking decision, the\u00a0Human Rights Committee<\/a>\u00a0has found that the Netherlands violated a child\u2019s rights by registering \u201cnationality unknown\u201d 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the Committee\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

Denny\u2019s mother was trafficked to the Netherlands in 2004 when she was 15 and forced into prostitution. She eventually managed to escape in 2008, and reported what had happened to her to the Dutch police. However, the police closed the investigation as they could not identify her traffickers. Her residency status is currently classified as an \u201cillegal alien\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Denny\u2019s mother was herself abandoned by her parents and her birth was not recorded in the civil registry in China she was unable to obtain Chinese citizenship and wasn\u2019t able to provide proof of Denny\u2019s nationality. Denny was therefore registered in the Dutch Municipal Personal Records Database with the annotation \u201cunknown nationality\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

To complicate matters, Denny\u2019s mother was also unable to provide conclusive proof that her son was without a nationality as required by Dutch law to change his status from \u201cunknown\u201d to \u201cstateless\u201d and to apply for international protection for stateless children.<\/em><\/p>\n

With no hope of getting further support from the Dutch authorities, Denny and his mother filed their petition to the Committee in 2016. The mother and son now live in a centre for failed asylum seekers with young children, with no contact with Dutch society and under a permanent threat of deportation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cStates have the responsibility to ensure that stateless children under their jurisdiction who have no possibility to acquire any other nationality are not left without legal protection,\u201d said committee member Shuichi Furuya. \u201cThe right to nationality ensures concrete protection for individuals, in particular children.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, as of September 2016, 13,169 children under 10 years old were registered with \u201cunknown nationality\u201d, many of whom had been born in the Netherlands.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Committee requested the Netherlands to review its decisions on Denny\u2019s application to be registered as stateless in the civil registry, and on his application to be recognized as a Dutch citizen. It also urged the Netherlands to review its legislation to ensure that a procedure for determining statelessness status is established, as well as reviewing its legislation on eligibility to apply for citizenship.<\/em><\/p>\n

The full decision is now available\u00a0online<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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