Evaluation Report on Registration of Births and Deaths in Nagaland

Abstract

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is more than a decade old, hut even today more than a third of all children are denied the right to an identity. Article 7 of the UN convention on the Rights of the Child states: "The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to-a name, the right to acquire a nationality and, as far as possible the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents." Every year about 40 million children are born without being registered. Six our ten unregistered new-borns are in South and South-east Asia.