The authors claim that Albania breached the following provisions of the Covenant: Article 24(2) ICCPR, for not having them registered immediately after birth and not granting their right to have a name; Article 24(3) ICCPR for denying their right to Albanian nationality; and Article 24(1) ICCPR for having been discriminated against based on their ethnicity. Article 16 ICCPR Article 17 ICCPR Article 25 ICCPR Article 26 ICCPR Facts The Albanian authorities refuse to proceed with the registration of birth of the victims because the victims cannot provide Greek birth certificate in the form required by Albanian law: a legalised act translated into Albanian and notarised. The victims cannot have their Greek birth certificate legalised because they are incomplete; in particular, their names are missing. The reason given by the Greek authorities for not including the names on the birth certificates is the parents’ undocumented status in Greece at the time the children were born there. This prevents the victims from being registered “immediately after birth” and from having a name. Legal arguments by the applicant Although there seems to be little jurisprudence on the requirement of immediate birth registration, it is clear that this is a fundamental principle of international human rights law: According to the Committee, Article 24(2) “should be interpreted as being closely linked to the provision concerning the right to special measures of protection and it is designed to promote recognition of the child’s legal personality… ”.[1] Article 7(1) of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Albania is also a State Party, provides that “The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents