A/HRC/21/39 (f) Establish independent, well-resourced, gender-sensitive complaint mechanisms in public policies to ensure oversight and to enable persons living in poverty to bring complaints about abuse of power and authority, corruption and discrimination; (g) Establish child-sensitive complaint, counselling and reporting mechanisms, accessible to children living in poverty, and launch information campaigns to ensure knowledge of those mechanisms; (h) Increase the availability of legal information to persons living in poverty, including through dissemination in diverse, adaptable and culturally sensitive ways; (i) Establish effective remedies (including domestic legal recognition and judicial recourse) for all rights enshrined in international human rights instruments, including economic, social and cultural rights. D. Right to recognition as a person before the law 69. Many legal, economic, procedural, practical and cultural barriers impede persons living in poverty from registering at birth and obtaining legal identity documents. Some simply live out of reach of registration centres, others cannot afford the direct and indirect costs and others are denied a legal identity on account of discrimination. Without birth certificates and relevant documents, persons living in poverty are unable to realize a wide range of rights, including the rights to social security, education, health and access to justice. Lack of birth registration also increases the risk of statelessness because individuals may be unable to establish their nationality later in life. 70. States should: (a) Make all efforts necessary to register all children immediately after birth; (b) Carry out registration drives, including awareness-raising campaigns, for unregistered adults and children, and ensure issuance of identity documents for persons living in poverty when necessary for effective access to public services and enjoyment of all rights; (c) Allocate the resources necessary for the establishment of registration systems that are accessible to and adequate for persons living in poverty. These systems should be free, simple, expeditious and operate without discrimination; (d) Identify and remove barriers that impede access to birth registration of disadvantaged groups at particular risk of poverty, such as asylum seekers, stateless persons, persons with disabilities and undocumented migrants; (e) Where birth registration or identification documents cannot be reasonably obtained, ensure that courts extend legal standing without discrimination. E. Right to privacy and to protection for home and family 71. Persons living in poverty are more likely to be subject to attacks on their privacy and reputation by State and non-State actors. Such intrusions may be caused by overcrowded housing conditions or the excessive intervention of law enforcement or social services. For example, children from families living in poverty are at greater risk of being removed by the authorities and placed in institutional care. 14