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.
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