Recommendations for registering children of refugees born in Germany
Registering a child immediately after birth is a State obligation under article 7(1) of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Registration serves to identify a newborn and is a prerequisite for enjoying other rights. In practice, registering the children of refugees born in Germany often takes several months if their parents cannot adequately prove their own identity. This paper provides recommendations on how to implement the provisions of the Convention on registering births.
The latest developments since end of February, when thousands of people arrived at the Greek-Turkish border and tried to reach the EU, provoked a questioning of fundamental international refugee and human rights law and longstanding problems of the Common…
The interdisciplinary study is the result of a project on children’s rights in development policy at the German Institute for Human Rights between 2012 and 2014. The study is based on legal analysis of children’s participation rights and a social science…
Development cooperation requires data in order to plan its projects or programmes, to monitor them and to measure their results. A particular challenge is posed by the collection of data when children are the target group of the development cooperation…
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