Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health 2013, para. 8
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- Urges all States to ensure birth registration free of cost to all children immediately after birth through universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, in accordance with article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 24 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to continuously raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional and local levels, to ensure free or low-fee late birth registration, to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers, paying due attention to, among others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, statelessness, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations that impede access to birth registration, including late birth registration, and to ensure that children who have not been registered enjoy their human rights;
- 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
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- OP
- Reference
- HRC resolution, Rights of the child: The right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), A/HRC/RES/22/32, OP 8.
- Paragraph info
- OP
- Paragraph number
- 8
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