A/HRC/RES/28/13
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 April 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth 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
28/13.
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,
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,
without discrimination of any kind, 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 Protection of 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 and
other treaty-based bodies towards universal birth registration, such as through
recommendations widely addressed to States in this regard,
Recalling the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Human Rights
Council in which they call upon States to ensure the registration of all children immediately
after birth, and without discrimination of any kind, the most recent being Assembly
resolution 69/157 of 18 December 2014 and Council resolution 22/7 of 21 March 2013,
GE.15-07102 (E)