A/68/44
The Committee recommends that the Child Protection Act be amended to prohibit
explicitly corporal punishment of children in all settings, including at home and in
alternative care settings, as an offence under the law.
Stateless persons
(22) While welcoming the significant reduction of statelessness in the State party from 32
per cent in the 1990s, and noting the information provided by the representatives of the
State party, the Committee is concerned that some 7 per cent of the population continues to
have “undetermined citizenship” and by the low level of registration as citizens of children
born in Estonia to non-citizen parents (art. 2).
The State party should:
(a)
Adopt legal and practical measures to simplify and facilitate the
naturalization and integration of stateless persons and non-citizens, including by
revisiting the requirements for the granting of citizenship;
(b)
Consider offering language courses free of charge to all non-citizens who
wish to apply for Estonian citizenship;
(c)
Continue and enhance the efforts by the Citizenship and Migration
Board to raise the awareness of parents whose children are eligible for naturalization
through the simplified procedure of the requirements for citizenship, and consider
granting automatic citizenship at birth, without previous registration by parents, to
the children of non-citizen parents who do not acquire any other nationality;
(d)
Ensure the effective implementation of the Integration Strategy and of
the State Integration Programme for 2008–2013, and extend the Programme beyond
2013;
(e)
Despite the information provided by the State party regarding its
decision not to ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
and the 1961 Convention on the reduction of statelessness, reconsider such ratification
as a matter of priority.
Data collection
(23) While appreciating the data provided on complaints and convictions on torture and
ill-treatment as well as on trafficking and other items, the Committee regrets the
information from the State party that statistical data is not collected in ways that would
permit a fuller analysis of who is complaining, where, for what reason, by whom, and with
what result. Accordingly, the Committee regrets that this data is not disaggregated by crime
or other characteristics, regarding complaints, investigations and prosecutions of cases of
torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement, military, security and prison personnel, as
well as on inter-prisoner violence, trafficking, violence against women, children and other
vulnerable groups, including domestic and sexual violence, as well as means of redress
provided to the victims (arts. 1, 2, 4, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16).
The State party should establish an effective system for national data collection that
compiles statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the implementation of the
Convention at the national level, including disaggregated data on complaints,
investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and ill-treatment by
law enforcement and prison personnel, inter-prisoner violence, trafficking, violence,
including domestic and sexual, against women, children and other vulnerable groups,
as well as on means of redress, including compensation and rehabilitation, provided to
the victims.
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