Unreported births

Being without a certificate of birth often results in legally not existing, unable to have access to government services like health, education, or the ability to marry. Many of these individuals, unregistered and unschooled, end up in institutional care, abandoned or delinquent.

1. Unrecorded knowledge
2. Officially nonexistent people
3. Denial of the rights of foetuses

1. Social discrimination

1. Unsupervised home births
2. Infanticide
3. Illegitimate children

1. Refusal to issue travel documents, passports, visas
2. Refusal to grant citizenship

1. Reporting births
2. Registering births
3. Doing without birth certificates

1. Unreported
2. Unregistered
3. Lack