UNICEF: One third of children never registered |
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About one-third of the estimated 150 million children born worldwide each year are never registered by their governments, making these "invisible" children more vulnerable to problems such as trafficking, UNICEF said in a new report. An estimated 1.8 million children are forced to enter the sex industry and another 5.7 million are sold into slavery each year, conditions often facilitated by the children having no birth certificate, the United Nations' children's agency warned.
Source: UN Wire
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