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Remove mandatory reporting requirements that deter
people from accessing healthcare and/or civil registration
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Remove any requirements for public officials to report people with irregular
residence status to immigration authorities and monitor practice to ensure
this does not happen
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Introduce legal safeguards (‘firewalls’) to prohibit public officials from
reporting people to immigration authorities when accessing healthcare or
civil registration services
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Issue targeted, accessible, public information to inform people about their
rights to access healthcare and civil registration services
Improve procedures to determine the child’s nationality and
identify where they would otherwise be stateless
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Ensure full legal safeguards are in place so that any child born on the territory
who would otherwise be stateless can acquire a nationality
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Build the capacity of civil registry officials through training and guidance to
identify (the risk of) statelessness during birth registration
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Ensure mechanisms are in place for civil registry officials to refer identified
cases for nationality determination to a clear procedure under a designated
competent authority with the necessary expertise and safeguards
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Ensure that children are treated as nationals for the purposes of accessing
their fundamental rights while their nationality is determined as soon as
possible and in line with their best interests
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Improve research, standards, guidance, and information about law and policy
frameworks for the determination of the child’s nationality
Improve local, national and regional data on birth
registration
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Improve cooperation between local, national, regional and international
institutions to collect and publish accurate birth registration data
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Increase efforts to gather and publish data on birth registration rates among
populations disproportionately facing barriers to registration, including
undocumented migrants, refugees, members of minority groups, people in
residential care, immigration detention or prisons, asylum reception centres,
informal settlements, and homeless people.