Stories

Stories of how birth registration has changed people's lives and Plan's work on ensuring children all over the world are registered after birth.

	Plan puts birth registration on the UN agenda March 22, 2012: March 22, 2012: United Nations Human Rights Council’s 19th session adopted a resolution dedicated to birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
	Celebrities support universal birth registration March 20, 2012: Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2:07min) and Anil Kapoor (27sec) support Plan and call for universal birth registration to be placed at the top of agenda's around the world. ''Every child deserves a birthday.''
	Study shows discrimination prevents birth registration March 2012: March 2012: A study commissioned by Plan in 50 developing countries shows that even where legal provisions exist, mothers routinely suffer multiple barriers to birth registration due to local attitudes and discriminatory cultural practices.
	7 billion on Earth: are we so sure...? October 28, 2011: On October 31, the world's population is projected to surpass 7 billion but with millions of unregistered children every year, how can we be sure ?
	Governments and civil society commit to eliminate under-registration by 2015 in Latin America October 3, 2011: Plan organised the 2nd Regional Conference on Universal Birth Registration in Latin America and the Caribbean, in collaboration with international agencies.
	Stateless children deprived of their basic rights August 26, 2011: Governments across the globe must register all children at birth to effectively address the issue of stateless people
	Plan Paraguay success: 300,000 people registered and many more to come ! July 25, 2011: Plan Paraguay has announced the country is on track to reduce the number of unregistered citizens by 75% by 2012
	Celebrate World Population Day: Let India's girls be born ! July 11, 2011: India must urgently tackle its ‘vanishing’ girl population as the nation awaits the birth of the world’s 7 billionth baby. Birth registration can play a key role in ensuring all girls have a legal existence.
	Day of the African Child: Raising awareness about street children June 16, 2011: The Day of the African Child is designated this year to raise awareness for the plight of street children across Africa. Birth registration has a role to play.
	Register every child to protect them from traffickers! May 25, 2011: International Missing Children's Day - Millions of children in developing countries are at greater risk of being trafficked, abducted or abused because they do not exist on government records.