Treaty Body Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC 2022) CRC/C/KHM/ CO/4-6 37 Findings Birth registration and nationality Recommendations 19. Taking note of target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen its efforts to achieve universal registration, including through the expansion of electronic registration systems throughout the State party, capacity-building of officials on the use and management of electronic systems, introduction of mobile registration units in rural areas, and public awareness-raising on the importance of birth registrations; (b) Prohibit the practice of informal fees for the issuance of birth certificates; (c) Ensure that all children, including Khmer Krom, ethnic Vietnamese and migrant children, have access to birth registration and identity documents; (d) Develop a procedure to determine statelessness in order to properly identify and protect stateless children; (e) Consider ratifying the Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.