The right to an identity: birth registration in Latin America and the Caribbean
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NU. CEPAL |
- UNICEF
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- 2011-11
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- Challenges: Newsletter on progress towards the Millenium Development Goals from a child rights perspective
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- 13
A disturbing token of child and adolescent vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean is that so many are deprived of any legal identity by failure to report their birth. This bars them from exercising basic citizen rights and can hinder their access to productive employment, social benefits and the justice system and deny them recognition as full citizens and the right to well-being, capacity development and political participation.
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