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01-11-2007, 05:40 PM
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) is to work together with UNICEF, the Catholic Church, the Evangelical community and NGOs to provide legal documentation to all Dominicans who have no birth certificates, and by default cedula identity cards. The plan, which according to the JCE will take 10 years, seeks to issue birth certificates to 42% of the population. It is estimated that 26% of Dominicans do not have cedula identity cards. Diario Libre writes that the plan will create a late birth registration office, and that social workers and lawyers will be contracted to work with the program. In parallel, bills will be submitted to Congress to ease the issue of the late declarations. JCE president Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman says that it is shameful that so many Dominicans don't exist officially and expressed the JCE's commitment to the program.
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