CHAPTER I CHAPTER VI Full name of child CHAPTER V Appropriate details in birth registration: As noted in Chapter II, the following should be included in birth registry records and on birth certificates: CHAPTER IV Awareness-raising campaigns: Some people are unaware of how important birth registration is and/or how to access it. Particularly where there are lower rates of birth registration, States should raise awareness among birth registration and nationality officials, doctors, midwives and other professionals involved in births, as well as parents and among communities at risk, including through community-led organizations, to ensure they understand the importance of birth registration, nationality acquisition and the correct procedures to follow. CHAPTER III Adequate training for officials: Birth registrars, nationality officials and others should be given regular, mandatory training to ensure that they are aware of good practices on registering births and facilitating acquisition of nationality, and that they understand how this can help prevent statelessness. Officials should be trained to identify potential statelessness through asking questions such as those listed in Annexe II (adapted to context, as needed) and be respectful and sensitive to the challenges experienced by stateless people.121 CHAPTER II by providing free interpreters/translators, assistance with procedures (including access to free legal advice if needed) and effective remedies for unlawful refusal of birth registration. Date of birth Place of birth Parents’ full names (if known). CHAPTER VII RECOMMENDATIONS Referral to robust determination of nationality: In general, birth registrars are not the competent authorities to determine nationality and, therefore, nationality should not be recorded on birth certificates. In some situations, however, a child’s nationality can be established without in-depth legal or factual analysis and recorded upon registration of birth (e.g., where the parents are both nationals of the country in which the child is born and can present proof of their nationality). In other cases, however, birth registration should trigger referral to a determination procedure to establish the child’s nationality (or statelessness). This determination should take place as soon as possible after birth and before the age of five at latest, with the child’s rights respected in the meantime. Questions about the parents’ nationality should not delay birth registration, and a child should not 121 Stateless Journeys: Birth Registration, ENS (no date). ANNEXES 49