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Marriage & Divorce Registration
[United Nations Economic Commission for Africa]This resource explains the value of registration of marriage and divorce for the issuance of legal documents used to establish and protect civil rights, and to assess social and demographic progress.
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Birth Registration and Armed Conflict
[United Nations Children's Fund]This report draws attention to the particularly precarious conditions for birth registration in areas of armed conflict.
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Birth Registration: Right from the Start
[United Nations Children's Fund]This book examines the situation of children whose births have not been registered by exploring obstacles to universal registration and identifying actions to combat late or non birth registration.
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Dictionary for Civil Registration and Identification
[Inter-American Development Bank]A technical dictionary of terms relating to civil registration and identification.
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