The government should register all foundlings and other children who need special protection (CNSP) to ensure protection of their rights, Sen. Grace Poe said on Tuesday.

Poe made the push under her proposed Senate Bill 338 or the CNSP Birth Registration Act of 2016, which provides a framework for free birth registration for CNSPs that include: foundlings; sexually/physically-abused children; children in commercial sexual exploitation; children at risk and in conflict with the law; children in situations of armed conflict; working children or victims of child labor; children in various circumstances of disability; children directly affected by HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted infections (STIs); street children; children with substance abuse; mentally challenged children; abandoned children/children without primary caregiver; and displaced children/refugee children/stateless children.

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