The world’s indigenous peoples are keepers and practitioners of unique cultures and traditions that are distinct from the dominant societies in which they live. Throughout history, indigenous peoples have sought to protect and defend their territories and way of life,...

On 13 July 2023, the Human Rights Council adopted as orally revised without a vote a new resolution on the right to nationality. This resolution seeks to tackle the issue of discrimination in nationality laws, where in a number of...

The Lok Sabha on August 1 passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023 that paves the way for digital birth certificates which will be a single document to be used for admission to educational institutions, applications for driving licences, government...

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 –...