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Article 13
Registration and Personal Documentation
1.
States Parties shall create and maintain an up-dated register of all internally
displaced persons within their jurisdiction or effective control. In doing so,
States Parties may collaborate with international organizations or
humanitarian agencies or civil society organizations.
2.
States Parties shall ensure that internally displaced persons shall be issued
with relevant documents necessary for the enjoyment and exercise of their
rights, such as passports, personal identification documents, civil
certificates, birth certificates and marriage certificates.
3.
States Parties shall facilitate the issuance of new documents or the
replacement of documents lost or destroyed in the course of displacement,
without imposing unreasonable conditions, such as requiring return to one's
area of habitual residence in order to obtain these or other required
documents. The failure to issue internally displaced persons with such
documents shall not in any way impair the exercise or enjoyment of their
human rights.
4.
Women and men as well as separated and unaccompanied children shall
have equal rights to obtain such necessary identity documents and shall
have the right to have such documentation issued in their own names.
Article 14
Monitoring Compliance
1.
States Parties agree to establish a Conference of States Parties to this
Convention to monitor and review the implementation of the objectives of
this Convention.
2.
States Parties shall enhance their capacity for cooperation and mutual
support under the auspices of the Conference of the States Parties.
3.
States Parties agree that the Conference of the States Parties shall be
convened regularly and facilitated by the African Union.
4.
States Parties shall, when presenting their reports under Article 62 of the
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights as well as, where applicable,
under the African Peer Review Mechanism indicate the legislative and other
measures that have been taken to give effect to this Convention.
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