ACERWC/GC/02 (2014) 2. Main Objectives 10. This General Comment is addressed to all stakeholders who play a role in the implementation of the African Children’s Charter and especially the rights embedded in Article 6. This includes agencies of States parties - Parliaments and judiciaries, civil society organizations, academics, legal practitioners, and civil registry authorities. Its main objectives are to explicate principles contained in the rights provided for under Article 6 and to give the above stakeholders guidance on its implementation in practical sense. 3. General Nature of State Obligations 11. In order to give effect to the rights enshrined in Article 6, States parties have to keep in mind their overall obligation to respect, protect, promote, fulfill children’s rights in accordance with their obligations stemming from Article 1 of the African Children’s Charter requiring them “to undertake the necessary steps, in accordance with their Constitutional processes and with the provisions of the present Charter, to adopt such legislative or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Charter.” The Committee specifically expects States parties which do not have civil registration laws to adopt them, those whose civil registration laws are not implemented to implement them, and those whose laws are deficient or outdated to align them to the required standards through law reform, drawing inspiration from the present General Comment and best practices from other States parties. 12. The Committee regards the existence of up to date, comprehensive and international law-compliant legislation underpinning civil registration as fundamental to the fulfillment of the child’s right to a name, and to registration of birth. Legislation should specify, inter alia: the regulation of the role of government agencies involved in civil registration; the regulation of any semi government authorities involved in 7