Search by country or region

Select a UN mechanism

Choose one or more sub-themes

Select one or more years of publication

Select true or false

Select a community

Theme Key

  • Stateless Persons
  • Nationality
  • Children
  • Discrimination
  • Implementing measures

Number of results found: 2342

Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Venezuela

39. The Committee welcomes the various initiatives and achievements made in facilitating registration of children at birth, such as the National Plan for Identity “Yo Soy” which set up hospital birth units to ensure every child was registered immediately following birth. However, the...

39. The Committee welcomes the various initiatives and achievements made in facilitating registration of children at birth, such as the National Plan for Identity “Yo Soy” which set up hospital birth units to ensure every child was registered immediately following birth. However, the Committee is concerned about the negative impact in this regard of Decree No. 2819 of 30 September 1998 providing that parents must be duly documented in order to register their children born within the territory of the State party.

40. The Committee encourages the State party, in partnership with UNICEF, to continue its efforts to ensure that all children within its territory are registered at birth, including children of undocumented foreigners and those belonging to indigenous groups and immigrant families.

Birth registration
Expand Original Document
Doc. CRC/C/VEN/CO/2
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW)

Egypt

35. The Committee recommends that each child born in Egypt of a migrant worker be ensured the right to a name, to registration at birth and to a nationality in accordance with article 29 of the Convention and to the delivery of a birth certificate by the Egyptian civil registry.

35. The Committee recommends that each child born in Egypt of a migrant worker be ensured the right to a name, to registration at birth and to a nationality in accordance with article 29 of the Convention and to the delivery of a birth certificate by the Egyptian civil registry.

(Forced) migration context Born on territory Birth registration
Expand Original Document
Doc. CMW/C/EGY/CO/1