ICM/ICN Birth Registration campaign.

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The ICM and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) jointly launched a new toolkit at the Women Deliver conference, London, October 2007.

In a session at 'Speakers' Corner', ICM Deputy Director Bridget Lynch and ICN Director of Development and External Relations Linda Carrier-Walker, spoke of the huge significance of registration. An unregistered baby may be omitted from programmes of basic healthcare such as immunisation, miss early schooling and grow up to lack the right to vote, to own or inherit property, to get married--or even to receive a death certificate. For unregistered children in a community which suffers war or unrest, who may get separated from other family members, their chances of being reunited are drastically...