The following two reports launched globally focus on different circumstances, in which children’s right to identity may be at risk. UNHCR’s report, Global Trends – Forced Displacement in 2022, outlines the global trends of this phenomenon in 2022. It includes...

Children’s Voices in Surrogacy Law is a project which gathers and analyses the views of children and young people on surrogacy law reform, with a current focus on the United Kingdom. Phase One involved 25 children who had experience of...

The policy brief reminds us that birth registration is mandatory in Nepal and is required for enrolment in schools, accessing health services, for obtaining national citizenship, passport etc. and that, in 2016, 56% of the children under the age of...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) welcomes the solid efforts undertaken by the Regional Steering Group (RSG) for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Asia and the Pacific. Most relevant is the recent consensus – at the RSG’s ninth meeting with...

The Toolkit, which is a key resource for all Central Adoption Authorities and other actors in responding to potential past practices and in preventing any illicit practice, is comprised of the following four parts: fact sheets on illicit practices; a...

The reports shows that the practice of child marriage has continued to decline globally, even if an estimated 640 million girls and women alive today were married in childhood. Today, one in five young women aged 20 to 24 years...

The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) has launched two resources aimed at enhancing engagement with the Committee on the Rights of the Child on childhood statelessness. The first one, titled The child’s right to a nationality and childhood statelessness –...

At its 52nd session, the Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted, without a vote, its Resolution on birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. This new HRC resolution is the result of a...

Led by Hope and Homes for Children, a joint contribution was drafted to offer inputs to the process of review of EU’s Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims. The contribution, which was...

Reports and research – such as that carried out by Yale University – confirm that a significant number of Ukrainian children have been and are being indefinitely separated from their parents, often to be “re-homed” in Russia including through adoption...