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...
- 28 January 2022
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...
- 28 January 2022
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),...
- 18 January 2022
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...
- 18 January 2022
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...
- 12 January 2022
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...
- 22 December 2021
High Court finds that Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Treated Survivors Unlawfully
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...
- 20 December 2021
The Federal National Administrative Court No. 10 of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires has notified all interested parties, via the country’s official review, that, following its sentence and a collective action, it has declared the unconstitutionality of one of...
- 20 December 2021
In a context of growing awareness-raising and recognition of irregular practices in adoption over the 1970s and 1980s in Chile, TransformAdopción and the organisation Hijos y Madres del Silencio have recently shared a photographic project to offer visibility to these...
- 20 December 2021
Two years ago, a child was born in Spain to a same-sex couple – one mother is from Bulgaria, the other mother is from the UK. The child’s Spanish birth certificate lists both mothers as her parents. The legal systems...
- 17 December 2021
