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Isn’t birth registration just an opportunity for governments to control their people?

We acknowledge that many people are suspicious of birth registration. However, when governments register children's births, they are fulfilling their responsibility as defined by the CRC. Any country that attempts to use birth registration as a means of control or repression would be guilty of an abuse.

I don't have a birth certificate because my father used it, like any piece of paper, to roll a cigarette

Cameroonian child