Archbishop Desmond Tutu apparently believes that an unregistered
child is a "nonentity" and "does not exist". According
to "Plan
USA", it is a crisis, and the solution is "Universal Birth
Registration". Children are apparently saying "write me down,
make me real" to the world's leaders. I wonder how they came to
know that they were nonentities & did not exist, and that they
would become real once they were written down? It never occurred
to me that my existence depended upon being written down in a
record somewhere.

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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER

U.N.: Register every baby born

Desmond Tutu launches global campaign, claiming unlisted children
'nonentities'

Posted: February 23, 2005
4:23 p.m. Eastern

(c) 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

The United Nations is supporting a new campaign urging governments
around the world to register every newborn child, and it's getting
help from South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

''It is, in a very real sense, a matter of life and death,'' the Nobel
Peace Prize winner said at a New York news conference. ''The
unregistered child is a nonentity. The unregistered child does not
exist. How can we live with the knowledge that we could have made a
difference?'' 

The campaign, called "Write me down, make me real," is backed by
UNICEF and calls on governments to record the estimated 48 million
children whose births go unregistered each year.

Sixteen years ago, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child told
countries to register every baby immediately after birth. Every nation
has ratified the convention except two, the U.S. and Somalia.

The aid agency Plan USA has released a report titled ''Universal Birth
Registration - a Universal Responsibility.'' While it acknowledges
it's impossible to know for sure how many unregistered children
actually exist because they're not counted, estimates have suggested
the figure is over half a billion. 

(snip)

Full article at World Net Daily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43005

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Desmond Tutu Promotes Birth Registration
February 22, 2005

Tutu Launches Campaign for Half a Billion "Lost" Children

Children say "Write me down, make me real" to the world's leaders.

NEW YORK. Plan USA's global campaign for all children to be registered
at birth was launched by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in New York on
Tuesday, February 22. The campaign, "Write me down, make me real,"
calls on governments to register the 48 million children whose births
go unrecorded each year.
 
The campaign was officially launched by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and
Plan CEO Tom Miller at UN Headquarters in New York at 10.00 am on the
22 February 2005.

According to Plan, no records exist for the births of six out of every
ten babies born annually in South Asia. In sub-Saharan Africa, 55 per
cent of all births go unrecorded every year. It is impossible to know
how many unregistered children there are because they cannot be
counted, says Plan; yet, best estimates put the number at more than
half a billion. Plan's report, Universal Birth Registration - a
Universal Responsibility, provides more information on this crisis.

(snip)

Plan is already working with local partners in over 40 countries
worldwide to boost the rates of child registration, with some major
successes.

For example, in Cambodia, Plan's Mobile Registration Project, in
partnership with the government and UN volunteers, has recently
registered 1.5 million people in two months. It aims to register the
whole population of some 13 million people in the coming year. In
India, Plan has successfully registered 3.2 million children in the
state of Orissa alone. 

Full article at Plan USA ...
http://www.planusa.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1935

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Cheers, Steve..

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