11 December 2013
Washington Post: “UN: 230 million children under 5 never registered”
Nearly 230 million children under the age of five around the world have never had their birth registered, which often means they will be barred from education, health care and social security, the U.N. children’s agency said. To read the full article click here. To read UNICEF’s report, Every Child’s Birth Right: Inequities and Trends in Birth Registration, click here. To join the conversation on twitter follow #birthregistration.