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...
- 22 March 2022
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...
- 22 March 2022
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...
- 22 March 2022
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...
- 10 March 2022
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...
- 03 March 2022
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,...
- 28 February 2022
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...
- 28 February 2022
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...
- 14 February 2022
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...
- 14 February 2022
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...
- 14 February 2022
