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after situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis, and also to strengthen civil registration
and vital statistics, which are key for the collection of disaggregated data for monitoring the
Sustainable Development Goals;
(f)
To ensure that only the minimum information necessary to uphold an
individual’s rights is recorded on birth certificates, such as the child’s name, gender, date and
place of birth, and, when available, the parents’ names, citizenship and addresses;
(g)
To assess potential risks to privacy and to take steps to protect individuals from
discrimination and harm when determining the information included in a birth certificate,
particularly details concerning origin, gender, race, ethnicity, social origin, language, religion
and parents’ marital status, and to protect personal information obtained through birth
registration or other civil registration processes that may be used to discriminate against an
individual;
(h)
To raise awareness of birth registration continuously at the national, regional
and local levels, including by engaging in collaboration with all relevant actors, such as
national human rights institutions, the public and private sectors and civil society
organizations, in public campaigns that raise awareness of the importance of birth registration
for effective access to services and the enjoyment of human rights;
(i)
To ensure that lack of birth registration or documents of proof of birth does not
constitute an obstacle to access to and the enjoyment of relevant national services and
programmes, in accordance with national and international human rights law;
(j)
To ensure individual documentation, including in post-conflict and other
migration flows, of internally displaced women, refugee and asylum-seeking women and
separated and unaccompanied girls and other marginalized groups, and also to ensure the
timely and equal registration of all births, marriages, divorces and deaths;
(k)
To make every effort to tackle the differences found in the prevalence of birth
registration between boys and girls;
(l)
To strengthen global partnerships and to provide the cooperation and
assistance necessary to enhance technical capacity-building with a view to attaining
Sustainable Development Goal target 16.9 by 2030;
6.
Encourages States to ensure that registration documents are accessible,
comprehensible and available in minority and local languages, whenever possible;
7.
Invites States and other relevant stakeholders to work towards ensuring
universal birth registration through, inter alia, cooperation, innovation, the exchange of good
practices and technical assistance, including through the universal periodic review and other
relevant mechanisms of the Human Rights Council;
8.
Encourages States to request technical assistance, if required, from relevant
United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes and other relevant stakeholders in
order to fulfil their obligation to undertake birth registration as a means of respecting the right
of everyone to be recognized everywhere as a person before the law;
9.
Invites States and other actors to consider endorsing the Principles on
Identification for Sustainable Development, which aim to strengthen identification systems
and to foster cooperation around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals;
10.
Invites relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and other
relevant stakeholders to cooperate with States in providing technical assistance, upon request,
and calls upon them to ensure that persons with no birth registration are not discriminated
against in any of their programmes;
11.
Requests the High Commissioner to identify and actively pursue opportunities
to collaborate with the United Nations Statistics Division and other relevant United Nations
agencies, funds and programmes, as well as other relevant stakeholders, in order to strengthen
existing policies and programmes aimed at universal birth registration and vital statistics
development, and to ensure that they are based on international standards, taking into account
best practices, and are implemented in accordance with relevant international human rights
obligations;
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