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A world fit for children 2002, para. 37.6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [To achieve these goals and targets, taking into account the best interests of the child, consistent with national laws, religious and ethical values and cultural backgrounds of the people, and in conformity with all human rights and fundamental freedoms, we will carry out the following strategies and actions:] Special emphasis must be placed on prenatal and post-natal care, essential obstetric care and care for newborns, particularly for those living in areas without access to services. | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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A world fit for children 2002, para. 37.13 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [To achieve these goals and targets, taking into account the best interests of the child, consistent with national laws, religious and ethical values and cultural backgrounds of the people, and in conformity with all human rights and fundamental freedoms, we will carry out the following strategies and actions:] Improve the nutrition of mothers and children, including adolescents, through household food security, access to basic social services and adequate caring practices. | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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A world fit for children 2002, para. 44.1 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [To achieve these goals, we will implement the following strategies and actions:] Develop systems to ensure the registration of every child at or shortly after birth, and fulfil his or her right to acquire a name and a nationality, in accordance with national laws and relevant international instruments. | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 1c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State Parties to the present Charter shall undertake to provide special treatment to expectant mothers and to mothers of infants and young children who have been accused or found guilty of infringing the penal law and shall in particular: establish special alternative institutions for holding such mothers; | Organization of African Unity | Regional treaty |
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African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990, para. 1f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State Parties to the present Charter shall undertake to provide special treatment to expectant mothers and to mothers of infants and young children who have been accused or found guilty of infringing the penal law and shall in particular: the essential aim of the penitentiary system will be the reformation, integration of the mother to the family and social rehabilitation. | Organization of African Unity | Regional treaty |
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (2017), para. 25 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 12. 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; |
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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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Child, early and forced marriage (2017), para. 22 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 3. Further calls upon States to strengthen their efforts to ensure the timely registration of births and marriages, especially for individuals living in rural and remote areas, including by identifying and removing all physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to registration and by providing, where lacking, mechanisms for the registration of customary and religious marriages; |
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Child, early and forced marriage 2016, para. 3 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Further calls upon States to strengthen their efforts to ensure the timely registration of births and marriages, especially for individuals living in rural and remote areas, including by identifying and removing all physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to registration and by providing, where lacking, mechanisms for the registration of customary and religious marriages; | United Nations General Assembly | Resolution |
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Comprehensive prevention strategies against sale and sexual exploitation of children 2013, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Lack of birth registration is another significant risk factor since it makes a child officially invisible. It also constitutes a barrier to accessing the social services that are critical for prevention, including health and education. | Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material | Special Procedures' report |
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Comprehensive prevention strategies against sale and sexual exploitation of children 2013, para. 122c | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [To that end, the Special Rapporteur recommends the following actions:] Ensure that children's births are registered; and ensure that vulnerable children are identified early and that they have an adequate standard of living and free access to health care and health services, education and social security; | Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material | Special Procedures' report |
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 28 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recognizing that the registration of births, marriages, divorces and deaths is 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 sustainable development, and that the absence of compulsory registration of customary and religious marriages is a major impediment to the implementation of existing legislation and other initiatives to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, |
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 33 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 5. Calls upon States to ensure the timely registration of births and marriages, including by identifying and removing all physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to registration, especially for individuals living in rural and remote areas, and by providing, where lacking, mechanisms for the registration of customary and religious marriages; |
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Effective promotion of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (2020), para. 29 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (e) Ensuring that birth registration, civil registration and national identification documents are provided without discrimination on any ground, in particular race, ethnicity, religion and language, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 5 especially the target aimed at providing a legal identity for all; |
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Gender equality in the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation 2016, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Water, sanitation and hygiene needs are critical to prevent high maternal and newborn mortality rates. In its recently adopted general comment No. 22 (2016) on the right to sexual and reproductive health, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights notes that access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, as well as access to health-related education and information, are the underlying determinants to that right. Collaboration among sectors makes it possible to exchange information on how to deliver education on culturally taboo topics and to give greater priority to female-specific needs, in a manner that the water, sanitation and hygiene sector alone cannot achieve. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation | Special Procedures' report |
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General Conclusion On International Protection 2008, para. (w) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Welcomes UNHCR's intensified efforts to identify and to protect stateless persons; encourages States to prevent and reduce statelessness by adopting and implementing safeguards in nationality laws and policies, consistent with fundamental principles of international law, and by facilitating birth registration as a means of providing an identity; stresses safeguarding the right of every child to acquire a nationality, particularly where the child might otherwise be stateless, and considering, as appropriate, facilitating the naturalization of habitually and lawfully residing stateless persons in accordance with national legislation; and requests UNHCR to continue to provide technical advice and operational support to States; | Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | ExCom Conclusion |
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality (2014), para. 07 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Recalling articles 7 and 8 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guarantee the right of the child to be registered immediately after birth and to acquire nationality, |
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2014, para. 6 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling articles 7 and 8 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guarantee the right of the child to be registered immediately after birth and to acquire nationality, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2016, para. 7 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Recalling the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in particular its articles 3, 7 and 8, which recognize the principle of the best interests of the child and guarantee the right of the child to be registered immediately after birth and to acquire nationality, | United Nations Human Rights Council | Resolution |
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Implementing child rights in early childhood 2006, para. 2b | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The objectives of the general comment are:] To comment on the specific features of early childhood that impact on the realization of rights; | Committee on the Rights of the Child | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Implementing child rights in early childhood 2006, para. 9 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Committee has identified articles 2, 3, 6 and 12 of the Convention as general principles (see general comment No. 5 (2003) on the general measures of implementation of the Convention). Each principle has implications for rights in early childhood. | Committee on the Rights of the Child | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 56 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (kk) Guaranteeing the universal registration of births, including in rural areas, and ensuring the timely registration of all marriages for individuals living in rural areas, including by removing physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to registration and by providing, where lacking, mechanisms for the registration of customary and religious marriages, bearing in mind the vital importance of birth registration for the realization of the rights of individuals ; |
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern (2016), para. 04 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Deeply concerned that more than 5,900,000 children under 5 years of age die each year, mostly from preventable and treatable causes, owing to inadequate or lack of access to integrated and quality maternal, newborn and child health care and services, 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, |
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 055 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (c) To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular to enable them to continue and complete their education; |
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 041 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (b) To design and implement programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education; |
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 019 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 7. Once again urges all States to intensify their efforts to comply with their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 to preserve the child’s identity, including nationality and family relations, as recognized by law, to allow for the registration of the child immediately after birth, to ensure that registration procedures are simple, expeditious and effective and provided at minimal cost and to raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional and local levels; |
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 029 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (d) Designing and implementing programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education; |
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 020 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 7. Once again urges all States parties to intensify their efforts to comply with their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child 2 to preserve the child’s identity, including nationality, name and family relations, as recognized by law, to allow for the registration of the child immediately after birth, to ensure that registration procedures are simple, expeditious and effective and provided at minimal or no cost and to raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional and local levels; |
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 029 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (c) Taking all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and developing sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying special attention to adequate food and nutrition, to the special needs of adolescents and to reproductive and sexual health, and securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers, including measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV; |
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Rights of the child (2007), para. 033 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (g) Designing and implementing programmes to provide social services and support to pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers, in particular by enabling them to continue and complete their education; |
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