Issue Brief: Birth Registration for forcibly displaced and stateless persons

Issue Brief: Birth Registration for forcibly displaced and stateless persons

Document source:

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Date:
January 2026

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This document provides an overview for UNHCR and partners, including government authorities, on birth registration for forcibly displaced and stateless persons. It covers the basics of birth
registration, its importance, and actions UNHCR and partners, particularly authorities, can take to ensure their access to birth registration.

Title

Issue Brief: Birth Registration for forcibly displaced and stateless persons

Document source

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Date

January 2026

Document type

Operational Guidance

Collection

Policy & Guidance

Legal instruments

1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Keywords

Birth Certificates

Children's rights

Durable solutions

Registration

Right to registration at birth

Statelessness

Region

Global

Protected persons

Asylum-seekers

Refugees

Stateless persons

Comments:

This Issue Brief on Birth registration updates, replaces and supersedes the UNHCR Child protection Issue Brief : Birth Registration, August 2013 available at: https://www.refworld.org/policy/opguidance/unhcr/2013/en/94148

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