The 40 million children who just didn't exist »
Posted By berkeley 1 week, 3 days ago in Political NewsIt is a mission to give millions of children in the developing world something that is taken for granted in Britain: the registration of their birth and, with it, an official existence. Before the campaign – mounted by the international children's charity Plan – there were parts of the world where registration was rare. In Cambodia, for instance, as late as 2005 96 per cent of the population went unregistered. Without registration, there can be no birth certificate, no identity card, no passport, no proof of age or parentage. Thus, millions are at increased risk of being press-ganged as child soldiers or prostitutes, of not being returned to their families if liberated, of having only limited access to healthcare and education, and being deprived of their legal rights.
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This is a heart-warming story.
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The paradox though is that this is not a new problem at all.
Similar abuse of children has been going on for a very long time. I was startled out of my skin last night listening on the BBC to stories concerning the plight of British children who had been shipped off to Australia who never recovered from this abuse and as adults are still desperate to find their parents. Before that British children were also being exported to Canada.
There's a propeller story about this here:
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/11/15/australi...
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