August 2026, Latin American and Caribbean: Second Civil Registration Campaign

Titled ‘Latin America and the Caribbean, a region without invisibles. Identity for all!’, this campaign was launched by the Latin American and Caribbean Council of Civil Registry, Identity and Vital Statistics (CLARCIEV) over a period of 15 days. The community of civil registries across the region is holding a series of special initiatives in the 16 participating countries to safeguard the right to identity across the region and to eliminate under-registration. Following last year’s success in ensuring that an important number of persons gained a legal identity, this year’s campaign focused on ensuring that every child has access to birth registration by intensifying field-based civil registration services, prioritizing rural, remote, hard-to-reach, and cross-border communities where the highest levels of under-registration persist. Many countries in the region have already implemented solid actions to increase birth registration, as will be reflected in CHIP’s forthcoming report on children’s rights to identity in the Americas, whose launch will be held in September 2026.

In this context, CHIP congratulates CLARCIEV and the participating countries for this renewed commitment as well as for all the actions taken at country level to implement the right of children to a legal identity, and looks forward to disseminating further promising outcomes.

See: CLARCIEV, Regional Campaign – 2nd Edition – Civil Registry Week of the Americas and the Caribbean, https://www.clarciev.com/es/eventos/clarciev2026/clarciev2026.html?lang=en.