Un Legal Identity for All

04 Déc Un Legal Identity for All

SDG target 16.9: Create legal identity for all by 2030, including birth registration indicator 16.9.1 Proportion of children under 5 whose birth has been registered with a civil authority, by age. Proof of legal identity is defined as proof, such as a birth certificate, identity card or proof of digital identity, which is recognized as proof of legal identity under national legislation and in accordance with new international standards and principles. In developing an international mechanism to achieve these key SDG goals, and inspired by the Secretary-General`s determination to address the global problem of statelessness, the Secretary-General`s Executive Committee called on the Office of the DGG in January 2018 to « convene UN agencies to work with the World Bank Group (GFF/ID4D) to develop a common approach to the broader issues of registration and legal identity. develop ». As co-chair of the UN Task Force on Legal Identity (UNLIA TF), UNDP is aware of the huge expansion in the use of digital technologies in the recording of important events by UN Member State governments and the management of people`s identities in recent years. In view of the increasing demands for support from Member States in the area of digital legal identity technologies, UNDP needs to be informed of the evolution of the private sector identity space that will have an impact on public identity management in the coming years. To engage more formally with the private technology sector, UNDP is organizing an online roundtable where the United Nations and the private sector can learn from each other how technological innovation is influencing and will influence debates on the future of identity management. The event is scheduled for May 18 and 19, 2021 and will take place virtually on the Zoom platform. Note: Please note that the purpose of the event is only political dialogue. Cooperation with individual private sector entities in this dialogue does not require UNDP or the broader Task Force of the United Nations Legal Identity Programme to endorse the participating companies or their products. UNLIA TF aims to help Member States develop a legal identity system that ensures universal registration of all civil status, translated into regular, reliable and comprehensive vital statistics, resulting in legal identity for all. Through the coordination of 13 UN agencies dealing with legal identity issues, the UN LIA Task Force supports the implementation of the UN ELI by providing technical and financial support to UN Country Teams in their respective countries. In addition, UN-LIA addresses a number of policy issues that require intensive work in the development of international standards, such as digital identity, the use and scope of biometric data, the content of credentials and, most importantly, the confidentiality and confidentiality of individual information.

The group has defined the annual work plan every year since 2018 and the member agencies jointly implement the PTA. The missions to the country were led by 2-3 ECA representatives and lasted 5 days per country. During the mission, the team met with United Nations country teams, government officials responsible for civil registration, vital statistics, identity management and digitization of government systems, as well as development partners and representatives of civil society. United Nations resident coordinators have been the first point of contact during assessment missions. United Nations country teams have been sensitized to understand the role of each UN body in the implementation of the UN ELI at the country level. Organizations participating in the missions included UNHCR, UNFPA, WHO, UN Women, WFP, UNAIDS, ILO, IOM, UNOPS, UNIDO, UNESCO and UNCDF. In all countries visited, the country coordination team was established and UNICEF and UNDP were designated as the « lead agencies » of UN-LIA to coordinate future communications with government and other United Nations partners. Civil registration is defined as the continuous, permanent, compulsory and universal registration of the occurrence and characteristics of civil status events relating to the population, as provided for by decree or regulation in accordance with the legal requirements of each country. Civil registration is carried out mainly for the purpose of preparing the documents provided for by law. In order to understand the current system of civil registers, vital statistics and identity management, excursions to registration centres were also carried out.

Field missions provided information on procedures for registering and obtaining identity documents. Interviews were conducted with admissions officers at these centres to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the systems. The objective of the group is to establish a unified UN position on the legal identity lifecycle approach by promoting the holistic model of civil registration, vital statistics and identity management both at the normative level and in the field. Legal identity is defined as the fundamental characteristics of a person`s identity. Like what. Name, sex, place of birth and date of birth conferred by registration and issuance of a certificate by an authorized civil registry authority after birth. In the absence of birth registration, legal personality may be conferred by an identification authority recognized by law. This system should be linked to the civil registration system in order to ensure a holistic approach to legal identity from birth to death. The legal identity is extinguished by the issuance of a death certificate by the civil registry authority upon registration of the death. Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 (« Legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030 ») is key to promoting the commitment of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind, and SDG 17.19 – Support statistical capacity-building in developing countries, followed by the indicator « Proportion of countries that have achieved 100% birth registration and 80% death registration ». The content of LIEG focuses on the development of legal identity systems based on civil registration from birth to death and with a human rights approach.

LIEG`s mission is to develop tools and support efforts to strengthen the coordination of the United Nations response to the issue of legal identity, building on existing international standards for civil registers and key statistics, the new guidelines on good practices in legal identity, regional and country strategies, the work of the World Bank`s ID4D initiative and the work of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Legal Identity. Combating statelessness. In the case of refugees, the Member States are primarily responsible for issuing proof of legal personality. The issuance of proof of identity for refugees may also be carried out by an internationally recognized and mandated authority. The United Nations launched the United Nations Legal Identity Programme in June 2019 and formally endorsed it in March 2020. It builds on the existing international methodological framework for civil registries and vital statistics and consists of a holistic approach to civil registries and vital statistics and identity management. The United Nations Task Force on Legal Identity, co-chaired by the United Nations Statistics Division/DESA, UNDP and UNICEF and with ECA and ESCAP leading the implementation of EIA in their respective regions, is launching a short survey to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functioning of civil registration worldwide, provide information on national solutions and provide a forum for sharing experiences. This activity is funded by the friendly contribution of the Government of Japan Although the event welcomes all interested parties, the objective of this meeting is to promote dialogue between UNDP and the private technology sector. Speaking roles are therefore largely entrusted to representatives of the private sector. Indicator 17.19.2 Proportion of countries that: (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the past 10 years; and (b) achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death certificates. The memorandum to the Secretary-General was signed on 10 September 2018 by Mr. Zhenmin Liu of DESA, Ms.

Henrietta Fore of UNICEF and Mr. Achim Steiner of UNDP. The group is co-chaired by three directors from each partner: Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, DESA, Mr. Ted Chaiban, UNICEF and Mr. Patrick Keuleers, UNDP In meetings with relevant ministries and ministries, the UN-LIA was introduced to senior officials (usually ministers or deputy ministers) and further discussions, clarifications and strengthening of the UN-LIA model were conducted bilaterally. This has successfully led to political adherence. The UN League task force meets every two months to regularly update progress in developing an annual work plan. As a mandate, the United Nations Association on Economic Relations: Thirteen African countries were selected as pilot countries, and rapid assessment missions were conducted under the leadership of ECA to assess the current situation and the capacity of national actors to implement the United Nations Association. Out of 13 countries, 6 countries received seed funding from UNLIA TF in 2021 to launch the implementation of the UN Legal Identity Programme. Everyone has the right to be recognized before the law, in accordance with article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 16 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Several international human rights instruments, such as article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 24, paragraph 2, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, also recognize the right to birth registration.