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Gender Discrimination, Racial Discrimination and Women's Human Rights
[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ]This web page calls attention to the negative impacts of discrimination against women and girls in the context of racism and racial discrimination.
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Mother to Child: How Discrimination Prevents Women Registering the Birth of their Child
[Plan International]This brief offers compelling information on discriminatory practices that women in particular encounter when wanting to register a child.
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Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal
[World Bank Group]This report offers objective data and evidence for building gender equality and discusses the importance of birth registration and birth certificates in improving access to services and benefits.
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Birth Registration and the Right of Everyone to Recognition Everywhere as a Person Before the Law
[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ]This report contains an overview of global rates of birth registration and the consequences and impact of non-registration on human rights. It also explores barriers and good practice examples.
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The Significance of Legal Identity in Situations of Poverty and Social Exclusion
[Inter-American Development Bank]This paper discusses the characteristics, numbers, and location of the economically, culturally, and socially vulnerable groups that are excluded from access to legal identity.
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Travelling the Distance: A GPS-based Study of the Access to Birth Registration Services in Latin America and the Caribbean
[Inter-American Development Bank]Using Global Positioning System (GPS) data, this paper quantifies the impact of distance on birth registration in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, and Peru.
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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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Understanding Whose Births Get Registered: A Cross-sectional Study in Bauchi and Cross River States, Nigeria
[BioMed Central International Health and Human Rights ]This article examines actionable determinants of birth registration of children in Bauchi and Cross River states of Nigeria.
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Changes and Inequalities in Early Birth Registration and Childhood Care and Education in Vietnam: Findings from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, 2006 and 2011
[Global Health Action]This article analyzes data from the 2011 Vietnamese Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), linking birth registration with childhood care and education.
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Child Protection Issue Brief: Community-based Child Protection Mechanisms
[United Nations Refugee Agency]This UNCHR brief provides key arguments for the importance of community-based child protection mechanisms. -
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Early Marriage: A Harmful Traditional Practice, A Statistical Exploration
[United Nations Children's Fund]This report discusses the implications of early marriage and regional trends for this practice.
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Ending Child Marriage: A Guide for Global Policy Action
[International Planned Parenthood Federation ]This practical tool documents the special needs of child brides, and outlines the nature of the economic and social factors that reinforce the practice.
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Marrying Too Young: End Child Marriage
[United Nations Population Fund]Based on available data from 107 countries, this book provides compelling arguments for changing social norms in countries that still allow child marriages to take place. -
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Child Protection in Emergencies
[Save the Children]This book discusses child protection in emergencies, including the importance of birth registration.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
[United Nations]The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 25 (1) describes the rights of all individuals to adequate health and wellbeing, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care.
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Toolkit on Monitoring Health Systems Training
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Monitoring the Building Blocks of Health Systems: A Handbook of Indicators and their Measurement Strategies
[World Health Organization]This book is structured around the WHO framework that describes health systems in terms of six core components or “building blocks." -
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Slideshare Website with Health Information PowerPoint Presentations
[ LinkedIn slideshare site]This web page provides slide presentations on health information systems.
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Innovative Tools and OpenHDS for Health and Demographic Surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya
[BioMed Central Research Notes]This article describes the testing of health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) in a community in Kenya. -
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UNICEF Good Practices in Integrating Birth Registration into Health Systems (2000-2009)
[United Nations Children's Fund]This working paper discusses case studies from Bangladesh, Brazil, Gambia, and India. -
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Integrating Health and Civil Registration Data
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]In this interview with Edward Duffus of Plan International, he explains the value of integrating health system data with the civil registration process and explores tools for improving CRVS. -
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Medical Certification of Cause of Death
[Medical Journal, Armed Forces India ]This article provides compelling justification for the importance of accurate reporting of causes of death. -
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Physician's Handbook on Medical Certification of Death
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]While this handbook is oriented toward the U.S. vital statistics system, the information on certification of medical information is universally relevant. -
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Improving Public Health Information: A Data Quality Intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
[World Health Organization]This article assesses the results of the effort to improve health information in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Our Resource Library provides access to curated resources related to CRVS systems, including research, tools, publications, CRVS eLearning course, our Expert Talks video series, and a glossary of terms and definitions.
A CRVS system is one that connects relevant data from the civil registry and the health information system for the purpose of producing vital statistics. In order to function well, CRVS systems depend on common elements. These are featured under a unique section of our library. Examples include resources that focus on training, assessments and evaluations, identity management, data security and privacy, information and communications technology, and more.