The storm Rai forced hundreds of thousands to leave their house. After nearly four months, many people do not have housing or access to food or medical care. Health staff don’t have clinics to work in. A truck, a UNFPA-supported...

UNHCR is assisting some 10,000 refugees in Uganda after they fled violent clashes which began on 28 March 2022. UNHCR reports that thousands of children, women, and men have arrived from DRC and nearly 36,000 people have been displaced within...

Philippines joined the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi said “This shows a true commitment to closing the gaps that leave people, especially children, at risk of statelessness. Ensuring that everyone...

As part of the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child on 9 March 2022, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on family reunification, with a specific focus on children in migration and international protection and children allegedly...

The Adoption Authority of Ireland recently published the findings of a survey undertaken in 13 countries “to explore whether and how other countries provide and resource Intercountry Adoption Information and Tracing Services and what, if any, policies, procedures and staffing/resources...

Two members of the Child Identity Protection (CHIP) team, Christina Baglietto and Cécile Jeannin, together with one of CHIP’s Special Advisers, Eda Aguilar Samanamud, recently concluded a technical assistance project for Paraguay, which was carried out in two stages over...

As President of Missing Children in Europe, Madame Maud de Boer-Buquicchio*, joined a team of experts in Poland to understand and assess the situation of the children displaced within Ukraine and/or entering Europe, with a particular focus on the risk...

The risks for children in Ukraine are increasing every day, as, as mentioned by UNICEF, some 1.5 million children have now left the country, at a rate of just under one per second, since the Russian invasion began on 24...

On 9 March, Denmark’s Prime Minister personally apologized to a group of Inuit who were separated from their families and transferred to Copenhagen more than 70 years ago as part of a study to establish a Danish-speaking elite. The 22...

The Civil Registration Vital Statistics (CRVS) Inception Workshop for Assessing Inequalities in Registration was held on 11 March 2022 in Lao PDR. The key purposes of the workshop were “to provide an overview of the project, to further develop relationships...