A/HRC/39/30 (a) Take all measures necessary to ensure that all children are immediately registered at birth and issued with birth certificates, irrespective of their migration status or that of their parents; (b) Identify and reform laws or policies which discriminate against children and compromise the realization of their right to birth registration, including those which may lead to discrimination as an unintended consequence, on the grounds of the child’s or his or her parents’ gender, ethnicity or religion, language, migration status, social origin, disability or birth out of wedlock; (c) Remove legal and practical barriers to birth registration by raising awareness of the associated rights and benefits; eliminating registration fees and fines for late registration; ensuring procedures for late registration; removing documentation requirements that are difficult or impossible to fulfil; ensuring that registration documents are accessible, comprehensible and available in minority and local languages; ensuring that only the minimum information is recorded on birth certificates; prohibiting data sharing between health providers or civil servants responsible for registration, and immigration enforcement authorities; and not requiring parents to produce documentation regarding their migration status; (d) Implement targeted programmes to reach children living in the most remote and excluded circumstances, including by integrating the provision of birth registration with the delivery of other essential services, particularly health services; and utilizing mobile registration units, technology and other innovative solutions to advance decentralized registration procedures; (e) Ensure continuity of birth registration during and after situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis, and prevent the loss of children’s personal data through the permanent storage of birth registration and other civil registry data in digitized registration systems. 17

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