Registo de nascimento como direito fundamental e pressuposto básico à integração social

Abstract

Mozambique, is one countries in Southern Africa, which still has significant numbers of population that do not have a birth registration, in order do attest to their legal existence, which in certain way cannot have access to basic rights guaranteed by the State as they were never civilly registered and live without basic identification documents, leading to a reality of social exclusion, this work will focus on the nature of civil birth registration as a fundamental right and prerequisite for the exercise of citizenship and inclusion of people in society, in order to understand the causes that led them not to be registered, the consequences that this absence implies in the lives of individuals and the means so that the state can provide actions to reduce and even eradicate this problem. As birth registration is mandatory by law, it is not effective as it should be due to the fact that it does not apply to the respective recipients, resulting in its ineffectiveness.