RI, an unaccompanied Syrian child, arrived in Austria in 2015 and was granted refugee status by the authorities. Between 2017 and 2018, his parents and his adult sister applied for residence permits in Austria on two occasions with the purpose...

GTB, a Spanish national, was born to his Spanish mother in 1985 in Mexico. His birth was not registered with the Civil Registry in the Spanish Consulate and shortly after he was repatriated to Spain with his mother and brother....

UNICEF recently launched its newest publication, Collecting Data on Early Childhood Development in Household Surveys. In line with the SDGs, the latter intends to ‘guide the collection of reliable, internationally comparable data on key ECD indicators that can be produced...

Family for every child launched in December 2023 the ‘Supporting Integration’ toolkit documents (“Supporting Integration: A Toolkit for Practitioners Working with Children and Young People on the Move”), which shares good practice guidance for practitioners working with child migrants. The...

Scotland has recently published its scoping study on forced adoption in the nation. Scotland’s report specifically focuses on ‘practices in the 1950s-1970s “which resulted in newborn babies being unnecessarily taken away from unmarried mothers and placed for adoption, without regard...

At the end of 2023, UNICEF launched its new data portal on child marriage. The Child Marriage Data Portal measures countries’ progress towards the achievement of relevant SDGs, through country profiles and an exploration of trends in moving forward towards...

Mobilising this regional sport event, UNICEF with leading football players and the private sector have launched a campaign #MyName. Footballers such as Sebastien Haller, Kalidou Koulibaly and Aliou Cissé have explained through short videos that without birth registration, a child...

Following an earlier report published in 2020 on the adoption of children from Sri Lanka, this new report confirms a lack of adequate measures taken by the Swiss authorities in contexts of serious signs of irregularities during adoption proceedings in...

The Secrétariat aux services internationaux à l’enfant (SASIE) of Quebec (Canada) recently published a new information document aimed at adoptees, titled The search for origins in intercountry adoption and in another Canadian province or territory. The purpose of this document...

As part of global efforts to ensure that the role of caregivers, particularly of women, is acknowledged and further supported, a new resolution was adopted at the 54th session of the Human Rights Council on 10 October. For children and...