Background materials
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Background materials
29 March 2016
The below is a list of background materials for the first Regional Expert Meeting on Belonging and Legal Identity in the Arab Region in Cairo on 17 and 18 October 2016: Our Children, Our Future: Belonging and Legal Identity:
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Covenant on the Rights of the Child in Islam
- League of Arab States, Arab Charter on Human Rights
- UNHCR Executive Committee Conclusion 111 on Civil Registration
- Sharjah Principles, Adopted 15 - 16 October 2014 at the Regional Conference on Protecting Refugee Children in the Middle East and North Africa
- UN Human Rights Council, Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law
- UN General Assembly, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9: Providing Legal Identity for All, including Birth Registration, by 2030
- World Bank, Identification for Development Strategic Framework
- World Bank, The Role of Identification in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- World Health Organization (WHO), Regional strategy for the improvement of civil registration and vital statistics systems 2014-2019
- UNHCR, I am Here, I Belong
- UNHCR, Global Action Plan to End Statelessness
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