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Annual report
01 July 2020
Global annual results reports 2019: Goal Area 3
Progress and results from 2019 by Goal Area 3: Every child is protected from violence and exploitation

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A nurse in Myanmar registers a baby, sitting on Mom's lap, for a birth certificate in 2018.
Programme
18 May 2020
Birth registration
Without legal proof of identity, children are left uncounted and invisible
Convention on the Rights of the Child: A two-month-old girl receives her birth registration in Ghana.
Article
10 December 2019
What is birth registration and why does it matter?
Without legal proof of identity, children are left uncounted and invisible
Prashenjit is held by his mother Hoimanti Bhaumik, who is holding his birth registration card at Mirtinga Tea Estate in Maulavi Bazar, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Report
10 December 2019
Birth registration for every child by 2030
Are we on track?

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A nurse registers Wunn Yan Kha at the Nation Birth Registration Campaign Naypyidaw
Press release
10 December 2019
Despite significant increase in birth registration, a quarter of the world’s children remain ‘invisible’
Proportion of registered births increased almost 20 per cent over past decade, yet 166 million children under-five have never been officially recorded
Abordar el registro de nacimientos en Angola: un padre y sus tres hijos están fuera de un estadio de fútbol.
Article
28 March 2019
Angolan football stars team up for birth registration drive
In Angola, three in every four children under 5 have no birth certificate
Press release
14 February 2019
UNHCR and UNICEF urge action in Europe to end childhood statelessness
Press release
07 December 2017
Crisis of invisibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Less than 1 in 2 births registered
At current rates 115 million children will be unregistered by 2030
A child plays with his bike in the Dominican Republic
Article
28 July 2017
The Dominican Republic’s invisible children
The lack of birth registration deprives about 186,000 children in Dominican Republic of basic rights like medical care, vaccination and education
A woman holds a mobile phone, Pakistan
Article
01 April 2016
Boosting birth registration in Pakistan with mobile phones
In rural communities in Pakistan, an innovative pilot project is using mobile phones to empower Lady Health Workers to register newborn children
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