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Birth Registration: An Essential First Step Toward Ensuring The Rights Of All Children, Jonathan Todres
Birth Registration: An Essential First Step Toward Ensuring The Rights Of All Children, Jonathan Todres
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Birth registration, the official recording of a child's birth by a government agency, is one of the most important events in a child's life. Birth registration establishes the existence of the child under law and provides the foundation for ensuring many of the child's rights. Although birth registration alone does not guarantee that a child will have access to adequate health care, receive an education, or be free from abuse or exploitation, its absence leaves a child at greater risk of a range of human rights violations. Despite the importance of birth registration, according to UNICEF, approximately 50 million newborn …