A/HRC/39/30 prevent them from obtaining nationality on an equal basis with children without disabilities, must be eliminated. 62. General measures to expand the accessibility of birth registration also do so for children with disabilities; for example, increasing the number and reach of registration facilities, simplifying administrative procedures and prior documentary requirements, ensuring provisions for late birth registration and eliminating fees and penalties associated with birth registration, reaching families in rural areas and refugee camps through targeted programmes such as mobile registration units, and using technology to digitize the civil registration system. In monitoring birth registration results at the national level, disaggregated data on birth registration rates is needed, including on the basis of disability. D. Reaching indigenous and minority communities 63. Consistent with the principle of free, prior and informed consent, as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (art. 19), any reforms or proposed changes to birth registration systems should be undertaken after proper consultation with, and the participation of, indigenous communities and their representative organizations. Any discriminatory laws and policies in this regard, including as an unintended consequence, should be identified and addressed. 64. The particular barriers to birth registration faced by indigenous and minority communities need to be assessed in each national context, and targeted measures need to be taken to address them. Such measures could include provisions for late birth registration, including of adults, simplified administrative processes, making relevant forms available in indigenous and minority languages, eliminating discriminatory ethnic or religious data from registration procedures, and foregoing documentation requirements such as parents’ birth certificates where these are difficult or impossible to obtain. Witness statements or testimonies could be accepted instead of prior documents where necessary to ensure birth registration. 65. In Argentina, the Government is strengthening birth registration among indigenous peoples through mobile registration, by removing barriers to access to birth registration and by integrating registration with other services. Immediate, compulsory, efficient and free procedures for registering the births of newborns are guaranteed by law for all children. Recent rights-based legal provisions have supported late birth registration for children up to 12 years of age, particularly targeting indigenous persons who in many cases did not hold a birth certificate or national identity document. This is supported by cooperation with the education system, whereby the Federal Council for Children, Adolescents and Family requested schools to report on the enrolment of unregistered children. The Government has also rolled out mobile registration facilities in order to bring birth registration closer to indigenous peoples and other hard-to-reach population groups. 66. In Serbia, birth registration is being expanded among the minority Roma community through regulatory changes and a range of activities on the ground carried out in a partnership between UNHCR, the Ministry of Public Administration and Local SelfGovernment and the Ombudsman’s Office. These include provisions for late registration and targeted measures to overcome discrimination and reach marginalized children. Following legal amendments, the right to birth registration now applies to all children, regardless of the timing of the birth registration or parental status. The omission of information on the ethnicity or national status of a child from the national register was crucial to expanding registration among Roma children. In collaboration with partners, child rights-based capacity-building for judges and relevant officials was conducted in order to counter discrimination. Public awareness-raising campaigns promoting birth registration were also implemented, and birth registration services were integrated with health services. Special visits were made to informal settlements to register children, 13