A/HRC/RES/22/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
22/7.
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere
as a person before the law
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, in which the
Assembly established the Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the human right of everyone to be recognized everywhere as a person
before the law, which is enshrined in, inter alia, the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other
relevant international instruments,
Recalling the obligation of States to register all children immediately after birth, as
provided for in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers
and Members of Their Families and other relevant international instruments to which they
are party,
Recognizing the importance of a human rights-based approach to birth registration,
based on international human rights obligations and commitments operationally directed to
promoting and protecting human rights,
Welcoming the continuing efforts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
towards universal birth registration, such as through recommendations widely addressed to
States in this regard,
The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of
the Council on its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/2), chap. I.
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