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Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsRatification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The Committee reiterates its recommendation (see CAT/C/NOR/CO/6-7, para. 6) that the State party further consider incorporating all provisions of the Convention into domestic law in …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporation
  The Committee invites the State party to ratify the core United Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet party.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  The Committee notes that the adherence of the State party to the nine major international human rights instruments would enhance the enjoyment by women of …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Ratification, reservation, and incorporationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should review the justifications for, and the necessity of, maintaining its reservations to articles 10, 14 and 20 of the Covenant with …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should establish all necessary safeguards to ensure that all children born in the State party are entitled to a nationality at birth …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should provide in the law a specific definition of statelessness, in line with international standards.

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should adopt the proposed amendments to its nationality and citizenship laws to allow for dual citizenship to reduce the risk for foreign …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure birth registration of children born to refugee and asylum-seeking women.
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should review the threshold for proving partner abuse in the context of the requirement for obtaining permanent residence status of three years …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should review immigration laws and policies to ensure that they do not have disproportionate consequences for ethnic minority, refugee and asylum-seeking women …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should include a legal definition of stateless persons in its legislation, and establish legal and other safeguards to ensure that all children …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the Child Welfare Act applies to all unaccompanied asylum-seeking children regardless of their age with a …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that detention of asylum seekers is only used as a measure of last resort, for the shortest possible period of …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that the care of unaccompanied minors between the ages of 15 and 18 is transferred from the Directorate of Immigration …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure the effective implementation of the 2017 decision of the Norwegian parliament to give some unaccompanied minors who have received time-limited …

Recommended measures (7)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should consider establishing a system to automatically reassess temporary residency permits of unaccompanied children and issuing residence permits of a longer duration.
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should address additional root causes of the disappearance of children from reception centres.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should increase its efforts to search for missing children, provide them with the necessary protection, redress and rehabilitation and ensure that, if …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should under no circumstances deport children and their families back to countries where there is a risk of irreparable harm to the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should place children and their families in reception centres only for the shortest time possible, and increase the human, technical and financial …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should ensure that under no circumstances are children placed in detention on the basis of their immigration status.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesPolicies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that unaccompanied children in all municipalities, including those above 15 years of age, receive good-quality care.