Marcos extends Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade to 2030

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has extended the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Decade in the Philippines until 2030 to ensure the timely registration of every birth and death and to strengthen the country’s legal identity system. Under Proclamation No. 1339, signed by Executive Secretary Ralph Recto on July 6 by the authority