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Does the Right to Birth Registration Include a Right to a Birth Certificate?


Paula Gerber


Monash University - Faculty of Law

Andy Gargett


Independent

Melissa Castan


Monash University - Faculty of Law

2011

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 29, No. 4, p. 434, 2011
Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 28

Abstract:     
International human rights law has long recognised the right of every child to have their birth registered. However, what is less clear is what this right encompasses. For example, does the normative content of the right to birth registration include a right to a birth certificate? This is a question that has become very relevant to Indigenous Australians many of whom are experiencing difficulties acquiring a birth certificate. This article argues that the right to birth registration, as set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, implicitly includes the right to a birth certificate. This conclusion is reached following an analysis of the work of the Human Rights Committee and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 27

Keywords: birth certificate, birth registration, Convention on the Rights of the Child, ICCPR, Indigenous, international human rights law, United Nations Human Rights Committee, United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

JEL Classification: K00, K10, K30, K33


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Date posted: September 28, 2012  

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Gerber, Paula and Gargett, Andy and Castan, Melissa, Does the Right to Birth Registration Include a Right to a Birth Certificate? (2011). Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 29, No. 4, p. 434, 2011; Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 28. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2152766

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Paula Gerber (Contact Author)
Monash University - Faculty of Law ( email )
Wellington Road
Clayton, Victoria 3800
Australia

Andy Gargett
Independent ( email )
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Melissa Castan
Monash University - Faculty of Law ( email )
Wellington Road
Clayton, Victoria 3800
Australia

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