V. CIVIL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS (Art. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16) In response to the recommendations of Articles 6, 7, and 10, which concern specifically the name and nationality, freedom of expression and the protection of privacy, the Government, with the support of its development partners and CSOs conducted several actions. a) Name and Nationality (Art.6) As for name and nationality, note should be taken of the: - setting up of the National Civil Status Bureau (BUNEC) by Decree No. 2013/031 of 13 February 2013 of the Head of State and the re-organisation of Civil Status Centres; increasing of mobile hearings and speeding up the establishment of birth certificates in remote and/or isolated areas; identifying children without birth certificates so as to establish them, with technical and financial support from partners, especially UNICEF and Plan Cameroon; transferring of some powers to regional and local authorities helps to open up areas and therefore facilitates the registration of births in the opened up areas; raising the awareness of the community on the need for birth registration; and collective wedding celebrations promote the establishment of civil status certificates. The actions taken have contributed to increasing the birth registration rate. Definitely, the re-organisation of Civil Status Registration Centres, with the primary aim of facilitating access for all to the civil status services helped to bring the civil status centres closer to the citizens. As it stands, there are four hundred and nineteen (419) main civil status registration centres, forty-five (45) in the diplomatic missions, fourteen (14) within city councils and three hundred and sixty (360) within regional and local councils. Today, the number of secondary civil status registration centres, attached to the main centres, is two thousand three hundred (2300). For the year 2014, 42 such secondary civil status registration centres were set up. It should, however, be noted that some effort is still needed considering the high demand on the field. Besides, the isolation of some areas, insufficient resources and some sociocultural drawbacks hamper the implementation of the above-mentioned recommendations. In perspective, the Government is considering measures such as popularising Law No. 2011-011 of 6 May 2011 amending and supplementing certain provisions of Ordinance No. 81/02 of 29 June 1981 to organise civil status in Cameroon, which extends the deadlines and re-organises the institutional framework for the issuance of civil status certificates; making the National Civil Status Bureau (BUNEC) go operational for the effective registration of birth throughout the national territory, and continuing the transfer of resources to the local authorities. b) Freedom of Expression (Art.7) In this light, families, educators, communities and Civil Society Organisations are educated regularly by officials in charge of the promotion and protection of the rights of the child, respect of the views of children. 15