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        "id": 1345107,
        "msgid": "asia-to-take-action-over-unregistered-births-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-01-10 00:00:00",
        "title": "Asia to take action over unregistered births",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Asia to take action over unregistered births Agence France-Presse, Bangkok Asian nations vowed on Thursday to take action over the millions of unregistered births in the region, saying it denied children access to education and healthcare and made them vulnerable to exploitation. At a United Nations conference in the Thai capital, representatives from 25 nations heard that two thirds of the world's 50 million children unregistered at birth each year live in Asia.",
        "content": "<p>Asia to take action over unregistered births<\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse, Bangkok<\/p>\n<p>Asian nations vowed on Thursday to take action over the millions<br>\nof unregistered births in the region, saying it denied children<br>\naccess to education and healthcare and made them vulnerable to<br>\nexploitation.<\/p>\n<p>At a United Nations conference in the Thai capital,<br>\nrepresentatives from 25 nations heard that two thirds of the<br>\nworld&apos;s 50 million children unregistered at birth each year live<br>\nin Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Without this first document, all other rights are put in<br>\njeopardy: the right to a nationality, to health care and<br>\neducation,&quot; said conference organizers Unicef and child welfare<br>\norganization Plan International.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Without an official identity, children are far more<br>\nvulnerable to exploitation, trafficking, child labor, early<br>\nmarriage and military recruitment,&quot; they said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The registration of newborns is a right enshrined in the 1989<br>\nUN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is ratified by<br>\nall governments in the region.<\/p>\n<p>But Unicef said the poor and the marginalized are most likely<br>\nto be denied their registration rights, with girls in particular<br>\nbeing vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the conference, Afghanistan, which has<br>\nsuffered from decades of conflict and is struggling to rebuild<br>\nits society, undertook to register all its children under the age<br>\nof one by March 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Afghanistan&apos;s system of birth registration has fallen into<br>\ndisuse due to conflict and breakdown of the infrastructure,&quot; said<br>\nthe country&apos;s chief of foreign affairs in the ministry of the<br>\ninterior, Brigadier Said Aziz Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We will achieve this target with a mass communication<br>\ncampaign and with the help of district level mobile teams<br>\nproviding a door-to-door service,&quot; he added.<\/p>",
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