Failure to register newborns leaves millions ‘invisible’ warns UN Children’s Fund

10 December 2019
Human Rights
While the number of registered births has significantly increased over the past decade, one quarter of children globally remain unaccounted for, leaving them vulnerable and “invisible”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
UNICEF reports that the births of one in four children under-five, or some 166 million children globally, have never been officially recorded.
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