Child Identity Protection (CHIP) welcomes this roadmap to achieve all children’s rights and meet the SDGs objectives. The strategy outlines a number of pressing issues related to achieving the child’s right identity, with thematic priorities being legal identity, access to...

As the security and human rights situation across Afghanistan rapidly deteriorates with over 550 000 Afghans have been internally displaced by conflict and at least 125 000 in the last month alone – Child Identity Protection commends the bravery and determination of...

Between 1950 and 1970 Greece facilitated the #exportation of around 4000 Greek-born children to the #US, #TheNetherlands and #Sweden. The following opinion Article written by Professors van Steen and Cardaras provides clear guidance on how the Greek government should tackle...

This new UNICEF/UNFPA publication covers Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Yemen, provides key recommendations for strengthening child marriage prevention programming during COVID-19 response and recovery phases. Based on this publication, approximately 700,000 child brides each year in the MENA...

The Open Society’s Justice Initiative briefing paper outlines the plight of approximately a thousand European women and children are currently detained in makeshift detention camps in Northeast Syria, since the fall of ISIS in 2019. A transparent and human rights...

Under the auspices of the IBELONG Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality, UNICEF and UNHCR have jointly prepared this note which explores the issue of sex discrimination in birth registration. The note recalls the fundamental right of every...

This book focuses on the issue of how the global temporary migration of millions of parents as low-waged migrant workers impacts the rights of their children covered by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), especially their right...

While the pandemic ravages child protection system around the world, the impact on civil registries and vital systems, will not be left unscathed. Already, 166 million children are not registered and a further 237 million do not have a birth...

The bioethics law adopted on 29 June 2021, which should be promulgated during the summer, recognises for the first time for people born through donor conception, a right to know their personal origins. When the law enters into force, which...

On Friday 25 June, Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY), led the launch of the first child protection information dashboard for Cambodia, the Prakas on foster care and kinship care and the report on the Action Plan...