As part of a series on use of technology, such as mobile phones, to help preserve identity – a webinar with leading experts was held on 9 March 2022 to discuss the challenges and opportunities for ensuring a legal identity...

The Committee on the Rights of the Child recently met with the Netherlands regarding children who are stateless and children in conflict situations in Syria. Children in Syria have had access to Dutch diplomatic assistance, however, the Netherlands has not...

Girls Not Brides published its partnership strategy until 2025. It presents six shared goals. With its partners Girls Not Brides intends in particular to “amplify the voices of girls at risk of child marriage and defend girls’ rights to health,...

As mentioned by UN statistical commission “Although significant progress has been made across the world, universal registration of vital events is yet to be achieved and millions of people worldwide are born and die without any legal tender of their...

Get everyone in the picture brings to our attention the work of Vital Strategies which called for attention to the progress being made in many countries. Vital strategies noted that “experience from the first six years of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Data for...

In November 2021, Minister of Interior met with the Executive Secretary of ESCAP to discuss his country’s ongoing CRVS development. During the meeting, The Minister highlighted the government’s ongoing efforts on drafting laws on civil registration and identification aiming to...

UNICEF reminds us that each year, 12 million girls are married before their 18th birthday and that if progress is not accelerated, more than 150 million girls will become brides too young by 2030. In developing countries, pregnancy and childbirth...

Several organisations working with migrant families have highlighted the risks and implications of family separation faced by Afghan children evacuated to the USA and the protection of unaccompanied and separated children. Indeed, KIND has made it clear in one recent...

This book provides the first-ever comprehensive legal analysis of orphanage trafficking in international law by exploring the process of orphanage trafficking as a form of child trafficking in international law. In doing so, the author examines the process of orphanage...

The case concerned children who have been precluded from unconditionally continuing to attend public schools unless they can identify themselves using a passport, identity documents, birth certificates or permits. The Department of Basic Education argued that the requirement to possess...