The Senate has approved a resolution concurring with the Philippines’ accession to the United Nations’ 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.The treaty provides a legal framework to prevent and reduce statelessness. Among its salient features is a requirement for state parties to grant citizenship to all children born within their territories or those born to their nationals abroad.
Under the Senate’s measure, the Department of Social Welfare and Development will “register all the birth of children born under disadvantaged situations in the country to avoid possibility of being stateless.”
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