Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo has praised the Ministry of Home Affairs for taking responsibility to improve lives through a new civil registration system.
Speaking during the launch of the new Electronic Civil Registration system yesterday, Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo said birth registration represents permanent and official record of the existence of an individual by the Government.
“It recognises the right of every child to a name, nationality, and to know the identity of his or her parents. That I am sure that all of us understand that it is the universal rights to birth registration, which is guaranteed under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, which is the current applicable law in our country and the policies of our government, in particular as it relates to Article 7 of the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which our government have ratified in 1995,” said Mr. Lilo.
