Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 6
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Also calls upon States to take all appropriate measures to permanently store and protect civil registration records and to prevent the loss or destruction of records, inter alia, due to emergency or armed conflict situations, including through the use of digital and new technologies as means to facilitate and universalize access to birth registration, and also to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics, which are key for the collection of disaggregated data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
Infants
Year
2017
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
HRC resolution, Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (2017), A/HRC/RES/34/15, OP 6.