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...

Since January 1, 2022, new parents will be able to register their child’s birth for free, confirmed the Togolese Council of Ministers in the beginning of the month. This new bill aims to “ensure the systematic registration of births in...

A recent BBC News contribution and related documentary have addressed the complex implications of separation from siblings when children are placed into care. The piece was drafted by Ashley John-Baptiste, who was himself placed in care and later discovered the...

Birth registrations in Burkina Faso used to require long and costly journeys to civil registries and many parents did not register their children’ births. With iCivil (a digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics platform where births are registered in real-time),...

On 13 January 2022, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a new judgment in a case concerning eight applicants, Afghan and Pakistani nationals. They had fled their country and settled in Azerbaijan where they registered with the UNHCR and...

This open access book is the first publication that discusses the core attributes of each article in the UNCRC, analysing every child’s right, as well as the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The...

During a public debate in the Senate on 15 December 2021, Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Child Protection officially announced the establishment, during the first half of 2022 a ministerial commission to investigate illegal adoptions and provide a response...

The High Court has declared that eight survivors were denied fair procedures by the State’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation which operated between 2015 and 2021. The report has been described as “fatally flawed” by survivors and the...