UNHCR and UN Women have released the Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2026, providing updated global data on gender discrimination in nationality legislation and its links to statelessness. The publication highlights that despite significant progress over...

The World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative has published a new report titled Building Statelessness-Sensitive ID Systems, providing guidance for policymakers and development practitioners on designing identification systems that are inclusive of stateless people and those at risk of...

The European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ) of the Council of Europe has published the Compendium of Promising Practices on Access to Nationality for Stateless Children, adopted at its 105th plenary meeting (18-20 November 2025). Prepared on the basis of responses...

The @Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), @TransformAdopción, @GRISIJ and the @Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) recently held an online international seminar in the framework of the enactment of the new Law on Adoption in Chile. The country has made considerable...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, together with Mexico’s Supreme Court, recently published a comprehensive systematisation of decisions made by the first in the field of children’s rights until December 2024. These decisions, which are carefully categorised in relation to...

Various organisations have come together to develop the Practitioners’ Guide on Digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems aimed at relevant stakeholders in Africa, based on initial work in November 2024, under the guidance of the Africa regional core group...

UNICEF’s recently-launched report, Igniting the Potential of Young Children presents the latest evidence on early childhood development (ECD) in Eastern and Southern Africa, offers a comprehensive statistical profile across five key domains of the Nurturing Care Framework. It is worth...

Government representatives from across Asia and the Pacific met in Bangkok recently  to address progress and remaining challenges in the development of universal and inclusive CRVS systems in the Asia-Pacific region. Their meeting concluded with the Ministerial Conference making a...

In July, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (ODIHR/OSCE), the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)...

Draft resolution n°1167, submitted on March 21, 2025, by MP Géraldine Bannier, calls for a reform ensuring an effective right of access to personal origins. Relying on the case law of the ECHR (notably the judgment of September 7, 2023,...