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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2016, para. 16
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- Recalling also the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and recalling further its goal 16, target 9, to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2014, para. 6
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 7
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 5
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2016, para. 7
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2016, para. 4
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- Reaffirming also its resolution 19/9 of 22 March 2012, in which it took into consideration the fact that persons without birth registration may be vulnerable to statelessness and associated lack of protection,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2015, para. 10
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- Recognizing also the efforts made at the regional level to achieve universal birth registration, including within the 2015–2024 Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade for Asia and the Pacific, and the Decade on Civil Registration 2015–2024 in Africa,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2015, para. 7
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- Recognizing the importance of birth registration, including late birth registration and the 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2015, para. 5
- Paragraph text
- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2015, para. 4
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2014, para. 4
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- Reaffirming also its resolution 19/9 of 22 March 2012, in which it took into consideration the fact that persons without birth registration may be vulnerable to statelessness and associated lack of protection,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2013, para. 9
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- Recognizing also the importance of birth registration, including late birth registration, for the development of vital statistics and the effective implementation of programmes and policies intended to achieve internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2013, para. 7
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- Recalling the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council calling upon States to ensure the registration of all children immediately after birth, the most recent being Assembly resolution 66/141 of 19 December 2011 and Council resolution 19/9 of 22 March 2012,
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- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2013, para. 6
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- Welcoming the continuing efforts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child towards universal birth registration, such as through recommendations widely addressed to States in this regard,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2013, para. 5
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality 2012, para. 4
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- Reaffirming also Human Rights Council resolution 19/9 of 22 March 2012, in which the Council took into consideration the fact that persons without birth registration may be vulnerable to statelessness and associated lack of protection,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2012, para. 7
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- Recognizing also the importance of birth registration, including late birth registration, for the development of vital statistics and the effective implementation of programmes and policies intended to achieve internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2012, para. 5
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- Recalling also resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council in which they called upon States to ensure the registration of all children immediately after birth, the most recent being Assembly resolution 65/197 of 21 December 2010 and Council resolution 16/12 of 24 March 2011,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2012, para. 4
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- Recalling the obligation of States to register all children immediately after birth as provided for in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other relevant international instruments,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 9
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 5
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- Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and recognizing that reducing preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age will require efforts across the 2030 Agenda, including target 3.2, on ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The right to a nationality: Women and children 2012, para. 6
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- Noting also the provisions of international and regional human rights and other instruments that specify the obligations of States parties to register every child immediately after birth, inter alia, article 24, paragraph 2, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the role that birth registration plays in preventing statelessness,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2016, para. 19
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- Expressing deep concern at recent outbreaks of highly infectious pathogens with epidemic potential, which demonstrate the potential vulnerability of populations to them, and in this context reaffirming and underscoring the importance of the development of new and innovative medicines and vaccines and of ensuring access to safe, affordable, efficacious and quality medicines and vaccines to all, as well as strengthening health system capacities for preventing and responding to outbreaks,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health 2016, para. 13
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- 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 services, and essential, safe, affordable, efficacious and quality medicines and vaccines, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose users to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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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
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 13
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 12
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 8
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- 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 71/177 of 19 December 2016 and Council resolution 28/13 of 23 March 2015,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law 2017, para. 4
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- 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,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern 2016, para. 4
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- Deeply concerned also that, despite progress made in the reduction of child mortality, Millennium Development Goal 4, on reducing child mortality by two thirds from 1990 to 2015, was not achieved, and that deaths of newborn babies are falling more slowly, with a projected increase, if current trends continue, in the share of neonatal deaths by 2030,
- Body
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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