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Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 36 | Sep 17, 2019 | Paragraph | 16. 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 due to, inter alia, natural disasters, emergencies or armed conflict situations, including through the use of digital and new technologies as a means to facilitate and universalize access to civil registration records, including birth registration; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2018 | ||
Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations, para. 35 | Sep 17, 2019 | Paragraph | 15. Reminds States of their obligation to register all births without discrimination of any kind, and also reminds States that birth registration should take place immediately after birth, in the country where children are born, including the children of migrants, non-nationals, asylum seekers, refugees, displaced and stateless persons, in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments, that late birth registration should be limited to those cases that would otherwise result in a lack of registration and that the child has the rights from birth to a name, to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, to know and be cared for by his or her parents; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2018 | ||
The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 22 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned further that more than 5,900,000 children under 5 years of age die each year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, owing to inadequate access or lack of access to integrated and quality maternal, newborn and child health-care services, to early childbearing, and to health determinants, such as safe drinking water and sanitation, safe and adequate food and nutrition, and that mortality remains highest among children belonging to the poorest and most marginalized communities, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 18 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Requests the High Commissioner to identify and actively pursue opportunities to collaborate with the United Nations Statistics Division and other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, as well as other relevant stakeholders, in order to strengthen existing policies and programmes aimed at universal birth registration and vital statistics development, and to ensure that they are based on international standards, taking into account best practices, and are implemented in accordance with relevant international human rights obligations; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on strengthening policies and programmes for universal birth registration and vital statistics development, which refers to the international legal framework related to birth registration, the progress and challenges towards the universality of this right, and existing policies and programmes aimed at universal birth registration and vital statistics development; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to establish or strengthen existing institutions at all levels responsible for birth registration and to consider the development of comprehensive civil registration systems, and the preservation and security of such records, to ensure adequate training for registration officers, to allocate sufficient and adequate human, technical and financial resources to fulfil their mandate, and to increase, as needed, the accessibility of birth registration facilities within its territory and, in accordance with relevant international law, abroad, either by increasing the number or through other means, such as mobile birth registration officials in rural areas, paying attention to the local community level, promoting community awareness and working to address the barriers faced by vulnerable groups, such as persons with disabilities, in their access to birth registration; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 3 (Target 3.b) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to work towards the full implementation of all Sustainable Development Goals and targets with a view to contributing to the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including, inter alia, the following targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:] Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing the importance of birth registration, including late birth registration and provision of documents of proof of birth, as a means of providing an official record of the existence of a person and the recognition of that individual as a person before the law, and as a critical means of preventing statelessness, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Expressing concern that unregistered individuals may have limited or no access to services and the enjoyment of all the rights to which they are entitled, including the rights to a name and to acquire a nationality, and rights related to health, education, social welfare, work and political participation, and taking into consideration that registering a person's birth is a vital step towards the promotion and protection of all his or her human rights, and that persons without birth registration are more vulnerable to marginalization, exclusion, discrimination, violence, statelessness, abduction, sale, exploitation and abuse, including when they take the form of child labour, human trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, and unlawful child recruitment, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that free birth registration and free or low-fee late birth 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, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing also that non-governmental organizations, professional associations, the media, the private sector and other members of civil society, including those involved in public-private partnerships, can also contribute to the improvement and promotion of community awareness of birth registration in a manner that reflects national priorities and strategies, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation 2017, para. 4i | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Calls upon States:] To enhance efforts to substantially reduce the share of untreated wastewater released into the environment and to ensure that plans and programmes for improving sanitation services take into account the need for appropriate systems for the treatment of sewage produced, including disposal of infant faeces, with the aim of reducing the risks to human health, drinking water resources and the environment; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 2 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reminds States of their obligation to register all births without discrimination of any kind, and also reminds States that birth registration should take place immediately after birth, in the country where children are born, including the children of migrants, non-nationals, asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons, in accordance with their national law and their obligations under the relevant international instruments, and that late birth registration should be limited to those cases that would otherwise result in a lack of registration; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 4 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that birth registration and the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law is closely linked to the realization of all other human rights, and therefore underlining 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, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that the provision of legal identity for all, including birth registration by 2030, can contribute to prevent, inter alia, marginalization, exclusion, discrimination, violence, statelessness, abduction, sale, exploitation and abuse, including when it takes the form of child labour, human trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, and unlawful child recruitment; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Urges States to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to birth registration, including late registration, paying due attention to, among others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, age, adoption processes, nationality, statelessness, displacement, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 3 (Target 3.8) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to work towards the full implementation of all Sustainable Development Goals and targets with a view to contributing to the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including, inter alia, the following targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:] Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 10 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further calls upon States to raise awareness of birth registration continuously at the national, regional and local levels, including by engagement in collaboration with all relevant actors, such as national human rights institutions, the public and private sectors and civil society organizations, in public campaigns that raise awareness of the importance of birth registration for effective access to services and the enjoyment of human rights; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Rights of the child: protection of the rights of the child in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the right of the child to be registered immediately after birth, and calls upon all States to ensure free birth registration, including free or low-fee late birth registration, by means of universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, without discrimination of any kind, and that vital statistics are collected for all children, particularly those in situations of vulnerability, through comprehensive civil registration systems that are accessible and affordable; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 26 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizing that universal health coverage implies that all people have access without discrimination to nationally determined sets of the needed promotive, preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative essential health-care services, including sexual and reproductive health-care services, and essential, safe, affordable, efficacious and quality medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and medical devices, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the users to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2017, para. 3 (Target 3.2) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [Urges States to work towards the full implementation of all Sustainable Development Goals and targets with a view to contributing to the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including, inter alia, the following targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:] By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 14 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Encourages States to request technical assistance, if required, from relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes and other relevant stakeholders in order to fulfil their obligation to undertake birth registration as a means of respecting the right of everyone to be recognized everywhere as a person before the law; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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The girl child 2017, para. 32 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Reaffirms that everyone has a right to a nationality as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in this regard calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider adopting and implementing nationality legislation consistent with their applicable obligations under international law and to facilitate the acquisition of nationality by and ensure free or low-cost birth registration for children born on their territories or their nationals abroad who would otherwise be stateless; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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| 2017 | ||
Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 17 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recognizes the importance of international cooperation in supporting national efforts to ensure universal birth registration, including the exchange of good practices and technical assistance; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Calls upon States to ensure that lack of birth registration or documents of proof of birth does not constitute an obstacle to access to and the enjoyment of relevant national services and programmes, in accordance with national and international human rights law; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Invites States and other relevant stakeholders to work towards ensuring universal birth registration through, inter alia, the exchange of good practices and technical assistance, including through the universal periodic review and other relevant mechanisms of the Human Rights Council; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 15 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Takes note of the Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development, which aim to strengthen identification systems and to foster cooperation around the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, and invites States and other actors to consider endorsing them; | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 5 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcoming the commitment of States to leave no one behind, and recalling that the provision of legal identity for all, including birth registration, is included as the standalone target 16.9 in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development under Sustainable Development Goal 16, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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