QC launches komiks to increase birth registration

• Source:http://journal.com.ph/news/metro/qc-launches-komiks-to-increase-birth-registration
• Sunday, November 29, 2015

By Cory Martinez

TO increase the birth registration in Quezon City, the city government will be launching a komiks informational material that will highlight the importance of birth registration as child’s first right.

Mayor Herbert Bautista will lead the launching of the info komiks, titled “Operation: Birthright,” on Dec. 15 at the QC Hall grounds.

The launching is an offshoot of the cooperation between the QC Civil Registry Department and the Rotary Club of Cubao Business Center.

The cooperation aims to provide free birth registration to indigent city residents and to increase the rate of birth registration in QC through the komiks project, “Operation: Birthright, a right to a name, an identity and nationality.

Birth registration is a fundamental right enshrined in Article 7 of the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child and guaranteed in the Philippine Constitution as well as in national laws.

In the Philippines, despite the issuance of Proclamation No. 326, declaring as a national state policy the free registration of births, deaths, marriages and foundlings, the registration of undocumented individuals has remain an insurmountable task.

Rotary Club president Nunelon Marquez said providing free birth registration has been the signature impact project of the club.

Inspired by its success, the project was also adopted by Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte with the Office of the Vice Mayor bringing the project to public schools and other densely populated barangays in the city.