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Registered or unregistered? Levels and differentials in registration and certification of births in Ghana

open access: yesBMC International Health and Human Rights, 2018
Background The birth of a child is a vital event that needs to be registered but this is not always the case as an estimated 40 million births go unregistered annually. Birth registration safeguards the basic rights of children and gives them an identity,
Fidelia A. A. Dake, Kamil Fuseini
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Delayed Birth Registration [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1942
T HE tremendous increase in the demand for birth certificates for adults occasioned within the last two years by national defense has focused interest upon this problem. The Council of the Vital Statistics Section has requested that a brief report on the subject of delayed birth registration be made before the Section. There are important reasons why a
openaire   +2 more sources

Global analysis of birth statistics from civil registration and vital statistics systems

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2023
Objective To assess civil registration and vital statistics completeness for births in World Health Organization’s Member States and identify data completeness gaps.
Tim Adair   +4 more
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Exploring Childhood Statelessness in South Africa

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2020
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees set a 10-year timeline in 2014 to prevent childhood statelessness and believes this is possible if the following four steps are taken.
Fatima Khan
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Legal identity for all? Gender inequality in the timing of birth registration in Mexico

open access: yesWorld Development, 2020
Despite recent advances, many low and middle-income countries do not have a comprehensive system for civil registration. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal of providing ‘legal identity for all’ therefore requires an effort to ensure timely
I. Harbers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Birth Notification and Registration: A Survey on Knowledge and Attitude Among Postpartum Women in Northwest Ethiopia

open access: yesRisk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2023
Haymanot Nigatu Alemu,1 Solomon Berhe Wubneh,2 Abezash Hayiso Yute,3 Kalkidan Firdawek Tekletsadik,3 Bekeltu Mesfin Ofgea,3 Belayneh Ayanaw Kassie4 1Department of Clinical Midwifery, School of Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences ...
Alemu HN   +5 more
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Stateless Indigenous People(s): The Right to a Nationality, Including Their Own

open access: yesTilburg Law Review, 2014
According to the 2007 UN Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples, every indigenous individual has the right to a nationality. The present paper focuses on the right to a nationality as a ‘gateway’ to the recognition of a plurality of other rights.
Willem van Genugten   +2 more
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Still‐Births' Registration* [PDF]

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1914
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Birth registration: a child's passport to protection

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2014
Claudia Cappa   +3 more
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The Universal Birth Registration campaign [PDF]

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2009
Birth registration is a critical first step in ensuring a child’srights throughout life.
Simon Heap, Claire Cody
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