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national services and programmes, in accordance with national and international human
rights law;
12.
Urges States to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and
any other barriers that impede access to birth registration, including late registration, paying
due attention to, among others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, age,
adoption processes, nationality, statelessness, displacement, illiteracy and detention
contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations;
13.
Invites States and other relevant stakeholders to work towards ensuring
universal birth registration through, inter alia, the exchange of good practices and technical
assistance, including through the universal periodic review and other relevant mechanisms
of the Human Rights Council;
14.
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;
15.
Takes note of 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, and invites States and other actors
to consider endorsing them;
16.
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;
17.
Recognizes the importance of international cooperation in supporting national
efforts to ensure universal birth registration, including the exchange of good practices and
technical assistance;
18.
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;
19.
Also requests the High Commissioner to prepare, in consultation with States,
United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, civil society and other relevant
stakeholders, a report on best practices and specific measures to ensure access to birth
registration, particularly for those children most at risk, marginalized and living in
situations of conflict, poverty, emergency and vulnerability, including children belonging to
minority groups, children with disabilities, indigenous children, and children of migrants,
asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons, taking into account the commitment to
implement target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, and to submit the report to
the Human Rights Council at its thirty-ninth session;
20.
Decides to consider this issue in accordance with its annual programme of
work.
57th meeting
24 March 2017
[Adopted without a vote.]
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