Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child 2015, para. 26
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Reminds States of their obligation to register births without discrimination of any kind, and calls upon States to do so irrespective of the status of the child’s parents, and to ensure free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration limited to cases that would otherwise result in a lack of registration, by means of universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, without discrimination of any kind, as a means for providing an official record of the existence of a person and the recognition of that individual as a person before the law, and granting access to services and enjoyment of all the rights to which the child is entitled;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
Children
Families
Infants
Year
2015
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Rights of the child: Towards better investment in the rights of the child (2015), A/HRC/RES/28/19, OP 26.