Acts should be prevented and prohibited that can lead to gaps in information (naissance sous X, baby boxes, discrimination leading to abandonment, anonymous gamete donations etc).
Robust gatekeeping frameworks should be in place to ensure that any modification of identity only occurs after a best interest assessment/ determination of the child’s needs. These frameworks should exist in informal and formal care situations including kinship care, foster care, kafalah, residential care, national adoption, intercountry adoption, surrogacy, etc.
Activities will focus on preventing the sale of children and their identity. Efforts to prohibit the creation of “paper orphans” and “paper biological children” will be pursued to ensure that records are accurate and due processes are respected.
Databases, appropriate laws and practices to support access by children in line with evolving capacity. For example recent studies in the EU context concerning identity in migration and refugee situations show the capital importance of portability of identity across international borders, especially when a third country is involved.
Promotion of transnational and transitional justice, recourse to OPIC, strategic litigation, DNA testing and international/regional/national jurisdiction and jurisprudence (e.g. investigations, remedies, counselling)
SPECIFIC PROJECTS
Based on its vision, mission and objectives, Child Identity Protection undertakes a number of initiatives. From the outset, there will be a focus on:
HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING
Country briefs are prepared for the CRC Committee and other relevant treaty bodies addressing key identity issues.
SIGNATURE PUBLICATION
Comparative mapping of children’s right to identity with a focus on the element linked to family relations.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO GOVERNMENTS, UN AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS & OTHERS
Evaluation missions, research, training, law and policy reform etc.
