Child Identity Protection (CHIP) has offered inputs to inform the forthcoming global report on the role of public service delivery in the promotion and protection of human rights and in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including in relation to...
- 26 October 2023
Child Identity Protection (CHIP) supports the multiple documents prepared for this Special Commission (SC) from 10 to 17 October 2023 and congratulates the work of the HCCH’s Permanent Bureau (PB) in the drafting of high quality material, welcoming the inclusion...
- 09 October 2023
For many adoptees, the right to know one’s origins can only be achieved through search activities in the State of origin, especially when records available in the receiving State prove to be incomplete or spurious. Search activities can involve multiple...
- 04 September 2023
DW (Germany) invited CHIP to speak about international standards related to surrogacy and the connected rights of children in the context of current reforms being considered by the Colombian government. CHIP was able to stress the importance that any regulation...
- 30 May 2023
Surrogacy continues to be used as a method of family formation around the world. Children born through surrogacy have the same rights as all children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) and the Optional Protocol...
- 29 April 2023
The Law Faculty of the University of the Western Cape and Miller du Toit Cloete Incorporated with the International Academy of Family Lawyers hosted the 25th edition of its family law conference from 8 to 10 March in Cape Town...
- 23 March 2023
Throughout end 2022 and continuing into 2023, UNHCR with different partners is working towards the forging of a new Global Alliance to end Statelessness comprised of States, UN agencies, civil society, academics and stateless-led groups. Child Identity Protection (CHIP) was...
- 23 January 2023