By Karen Allen, UNICEF Pacific Representative
 |
| Registering a newborn © UNICEF Pacific/2013/Allen |
The right to citizenship- something many take for granted - is a right not realised by children whose births are never registered. The people of Vanuatu – the Ni-Vanuatu – only achieved independence 33 years ago, and prior to that existed under a uniquely inefficient and rights-denying “Condominium” that consisted of parallel British and French rule.
