291. Birth registration is a right recognized for all children in the country. Article 10 of Act No. 008/PR/2013 of 10 May 2013 on the organization of the civil registry in Chad, which amended Ordinance No. 10/INT/1961 on the civil registry in Chad, makes the registration of children mandatory. According to Article 25 of the Act, “any birth occurring on the national territory must be declared to the civil registry office of the place of birth within one month from the day of birth”. 292. To ensure the effective enjoyment of this right, the Government of the Republic of Chad adopted various measures aimed at facilitating registration procedures for residents of all regions in Chad. These include the institutionalization of free registration of children in the civil registry since April 2007. 293. The Government continues to improve the implementation of the strategy, revised in 2010, to build a reliable and sustainable civil registration system through training of a sufficient and qualified number of civil registrars and officers and the supply of adequate resources, registers and forms to civil registration centres; The question of nationality is addressed in Ordinance No. 33/PG-INT of 14 August 1962 on the Chadian Nationality Code. Article 9 of the Ordinance, which deals with nationality of origin acquired by descent, provides that “are considered Chadian: legitimate or natural children born to two Chadian parents; legitimate or natural children born in Chad of a Chadian ascendant; legitimate or natural children born abroad of a Chadian ascendant; in the latter case, however, the persons concerned may, when they have reached the age of eighteen years, opt for the nationality of their country of origin, provided that the legislation of that country so authorizes”. CHAPTER 3: RIGHTS OF SPECIFIC GROUPS A. Women’s rights 294. Articles 13 and 14 of the Chadian Constitution provide that “women and men have the same rights and duties” and that “the State has a duty to ensure the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and to ensure their social protection in all areas of public and private life”. However, the strict enforcement of these laws is problematic because of certain social and cultural constraints. Hence, there is a high concentration of female employees in the non-agricultural sector, mainly in urban areas. 295. In 2015, women represented 13.4% of the civil service workforce and 8.2% of the formal private sector workforce. 296. These figures were more or less stable between 2007 and 2010. Women are also under- represented in management positions (about 20 women out of 150 national directors in the civil Page 64 sur 87