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Anil Kapoor at the campaign launch in India in 2006 Bollywood star donates movie fee to Plan
19/11/2008
Anil Kapoor, who stars in the highly acclaimed new Danny Boyle film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, has donated his entire fee for the movie to Plan’s Universal Birth Registration campaign in India

Children with birth certificates, Bangladesh Street children enjoy birth registration success
27/06/2008
Ten street children in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have joined 20,000 of their peers in receiving birth certificates, thanks to Plan’s universal birth registration campaign

Mother and child holding birth certificate, Mozambique Mobile units register thousands in Mozambique
27/02/2008
35,000 children and adults who never had the chance to register their births now have official identities, thanks to a Plan-funded mobile registration campaign in Mozambique

Glenys Kinnock MEP and Plan delegates at the European Parliament Birth registration is vital, Plan tells European Parliament
27/02/2008
Plan Bangladesh has told the European Parliament the vital importance of birth registration to developing countries and urged it to continue supporting Plan’s global campaign

Girl with her birth certificate, Cambodia WHO backs Plan's campaign
16/01/2008
The World Health Organisation has thrown its weight behind Plan’s campaign to give every child a birth certificate by launching a drive to encourage all countries to register births and deaths

Group of registered children from Pakistan 1,000,000 births registered in Pakistan
28/09/2007
More than 1,000,000 children have been registered in Pakistan thanks to Plan’s universal birth registration campaign

Baby Isabel gains access to medical help
05/09/2007
Marcelino and Juana from Cusco, Peru were devastated when their baby was denied medical attention because they didn't have identity documents

Children with birth certificate Latin America home to millions of "invisible" children
29/08/2007
Plan has praised the '1st Latin American Regional Conference on Birth Registration and the Right to Identity' as a giant step in the battle to register children currently living without any birth certificate or legal identity

Youth calls on Egyptian government to give him an identity
09/08/2007
Ibrahim took to the stage at Plan Egypt’s national conference on Universal Birth Registration to tell government officials that he can't get a job and even risks arrest because he doesn’t have a birth certificate

Bangladesh: Helping to end child marriage
11/06/2007
Plan has achieved 100% birth registration in one rural district of Bangladesh and will shortly reach 100% registration in another – turning these areas into child marriage free zones

India: children speak out through radio and drama
11/06/2007
Children in the Davangere district of Karnataka, India, are spreading the message of birth registration through school radio and drama projects

Indonesia: Free registration in Aceh Besar
05/06/2007
Birth registration in Aceh Besar, Indonesia, is now free for children aged 0-6 years thanks to Plan

Raising awareness at Africa's largest film festival
12/03/2007
Plan has sponsored two short adverts at this year's Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO), which highlight the importance of Universal Birth Registration (UBR)

Over 49,000 children registered in 20 days!
06/03/2007
Find out how Plan has helped register the births of over 49,835 children in Rajasthan, India - in just 20 days!

Brazil: He is my father - recognise this right!
07/02/2007
In Brazil a mother cannot ask for child support if the child’s father is not registered. Find out how our campaign is helping children and their families in Pernambuco

India: Film star Anil Kapoor backs our campaign
15/12/2006
Plan India’s campaign for universal birth registration has been brought to national attention by film star Anil Kapoor

More than five million children registered
20/11/2006
Thanks to Plan more than five million children around the world have been registered since the launch of our universal birth registration campaign last year 

Sri Lanka: Mobile birth registration service
23/10/2006
Plan and the registrar general’s department are conducting birth registration mobile events throughout Ratnapura, Kandy, Matale, Moneragala, Badulla and Nuwara Eliya

Six million registered in Cambodia in eight months
30/07/2005
July 2005: After eight months of mobile civil registration campaign some six million people (almost 50 per cent of the total population) have received their birth certificates. Plan Cambodia and Asian Development Bank have been supporting the Government of Cambodia in the implementation of the mobile campaign.

Peru: 'Less Politics and More Action' say Children
15/07/2005
July 2005: "Less politics and more action" was the message from children attending the launch of the Universal Birth Registration (UBR) campaign in Peru. The launch involved 25 simultaneous conferences involving more that 180 people, including the participation of children in all the conferences.

What Plan is doing
13/02/2005




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