PARTNERS | IDENTITY RIGHTS WORKING GROUP
The Identity Rights Working Group (IDRWG), established in 2021, is an informal mechanism for peer learning, knowledge exchange, and joint action in the area of children’s identity rights. It is currently co-chaired by the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) and Child Identity Protection (CHIP).
There are more 25 civil international agencies and society organisations working broadly on human rights united by a shared commitment to advance children’s identity rights notably birth registration, name, nationality, and family relations. The voices of persons with lived experience underpin any initiative to ensure that their viewpoints are adequately reflected. To date, the IDRWG has prioritised advocacy and policy work through UN Treaty Body Mainstreaming activities, notably with the Committee on the Rights of the Child and Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
Its activities include the following :
- July 2025 : Identity Rights Working Group* meets with CEDAW Committee
- June 2025 : ID-WG_Submission-on-draft-GC-27-final.pdf
- May 2025 : Inputs for the preparation of the first session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child concerning the right to education
- March 2025 – November 2024 : WEBINAR SERIES: Right to identity and access to justice
- August 2024 : IDRWG_Submission_Access-to-justice-6-August-2024-EN.pdf
- May 2024 : Expert meeting with CRC Committee on child’s right to identity and access to remedies
- November 2023 : “Protecting Futures: Addressing lack of access to education for children without legal identity”
- November 2022 : Virtual Symposium – Child’s Right to Identity in Emergency Settings
