Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage 2015, para. 18
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Recognizing that birth registration and marriage, divorce and death registration are part of a comprehensive civil registration system that facilitates the development of vital statistics and the effective planning and implementation of programmes and policies intended to promote better governance and to achieve internationally agreed development goals, and that the absence of compulsory registration of customary and religious marriages is a major stumbling block for the implementation of existing legislation and other initiatives to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Governance & Rule of Law
Harmful Practices
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Children
Infants
Year
2015
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage (2015), A/HRC/RES/29/8, PP 18.