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Social Affairs, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the
World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights and the United Nations Development Programme, and other relevant
stakeholders in order to fulfil their obligation to undertake birth registration as a means to
respect the right of everyone to be recognized everywhere as a person before the law;
9.
Invites the above-mentioned United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and
programmes and other relevant stakeholders to cooperate with States in providing technical
assistance, upon request, and calls upon them to ensure that persons with no birth
registration are not discriminated against in any of their programmes;
10.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights to prepare a report, in consultation with States, United Nations agencies, funds and
programmes, non-governmental organizations and other relevant stakeholders, on legal,
administrative, economic, physical and any other barriers to access to universal birth
registration and possession of documentary proof of birth, as well as on good practices
adopted by States in fulfilling their obligation to ensure birth registration, and to submit it
to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session;
work.
11.
Decides to consider this issue in accordance with its annual programme of
47th meeting
21 March 2013
[Adopted without a vote.]
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