More than a billion people in the world have no legal identity – no way to prove who they are. The United Nations has pledged to fix this with Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 and 2030 is the deadline. 

The UN’s outgoing person in charge of legal identity, Niall McCann from the UNDP, starts our exploration of the importance of ID and where we are on that SDG 16.9 target. And whether there a billion people with no identity:

“If you're talking about people that are legally invisible, well then counting them is quite challenging”

What is legal identity?

Can you have legal identity without birth registration?

What is ‘proving yourself before the law’?

Why are you so vulnerable if you don’t have ID?

We also hear a sneak preview from some of the other larger organizations we’ll have on the show in future episodes: the World Bank and UNICEF.

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