Regional Workshop on Statelessness and the Rights of Women and Children during the campaign. The Civil Registry, located in the capital, Phnom Penh, had been completely destroyed during the civil war in the Globally, States have adopted two 1970s. Until 2002 most Cambodians main principles in order to grant did not have birth registration a nationality: documents. This issue was initially addressed by the Ministry of the Jus soli (Latin: the law of the soil) Interior, which introduced the Subis the principle by which a child Decree No. 103 in 2000 to create a born within a country's territorial legal framework for a national civil jurisdiction acquires that registration system. This decree country's nationality. This entered into force in 2002 with the principle is the basis of the objective of registering the entire nationality laws of most States population under a uniform Jul sanguinis (Latin: the law of the computerized system by August 2005. Subsequently a national civil blood) is the principle by which a registration exercise was undertaken child acquires the nationality of with the support of the Asian his or her parents by descent. Development Bank, UNICEF and Plan International. A key component of the Today, most if not all countries success of the project was the use of apply a mixture of these two mobile registration teams, which principles: neither granting allowed people living in remote areas citizenship to everyone born to register when previously within the country's jurisdiction, registration had been inaccessible. nor denying citizenship to the The registration teams provided children born abroad. applicants with birth certificates without charging a fee. The project was said to have brought the level of birth registration in the country from less than five per cent to almost 95 per cent by 2008, with the total records of 13 million people under one national system. Main principles for granting nationality This registration campaign was successful because it addressed two main challenges. First, mobile registration teams could reach communities in remote areas. Second, public awareness of the importance of birth registration was raised through the use of television spots and documentaries, advertising, and events to attract media exposure, combined with the grassroots support of spokespersons, including community leaders such as village heads, teachers and monks. Improvements in the legal framework relating to birth registration in Thailand were also described, where civil registration law was revised to entitle all children born in its territory to be registered at birth. To facilitate 12