Birth registration of girls remains low

Birth registration of girls remains low

Where limited access to registration centers, particularly in remote and underserved areas, can partly explain the low birth registration rate for girls in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the social bias which confines women to the four walls of the home continues to withhold many from getting a legal identity. In the absence of a birth certificate, not only are girls excluded from availing critical services such as vaccination programs, education, and heal…