Last month, hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former Indian residential school in British Columbia were discovered by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. These government-funded residential schools had the objective of taking “Indigenous children away from their families,...

Child Identity Protection warmly welcomes the revised version of the UNHCR BIP Guidelines as an extremely important tool for assessing and determining the best interests of the child. It is filled with importance guidance notably meeting the child’s identity needs...

COE held a regional discussion on 1 June where leading experts touched upon a number of issues, including the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights stressing the importance of family reunification and keeping the family together, which CHIP...

TransformAdopción is a website focused on specialised research on adoption and its respective link to the effective implementation of the right to live in a family environment, the right to identity and the right to child participation in the field...

At least 30,000 children enter care per year in the UK. At one point these children may want to access their care records. Regrettably bureaucratic processes and current data protection rules have created obstacles for these children to access information...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is now accepting submissions to feed into the 2021 DGD to be held on 16 and 17 September, which will address among others, issues surrounding (past) abuses in all alternative...

Amnesty International has recently released a new report on babies being removed from their families during the Franco dictatorship until the 90’s in Spain. The report highlights the child’s right to identity where a significant number of people have key...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) remains admirable of the impressive efforts of the CRC Committee to uphold children’s rights in an ever changing global context, notably the digital environment. New technologies can promote the child’s right to identity by facilitating birth...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) welcomes the joint messages of panellists, including multiple children, at the annual full-day meeting at the Human Rights Council. During this Decade of Action, it is of utmost importance to accelerate the delivery and strengthen the...