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
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...
- 04 February 2022
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...
- 03 February 2022
Children with no birth certificates, IDs, permits, passports cannot be stopped from attending school
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...
- 03 February 2022
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
