Illegal adoption practices continue to be revealed all around the globe, causing States to take responsibility for thousands of children over many decades. From the 1950s-2000s, there have been reports that children from Chile were trafficked to be adopted abroad....

The Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) has approved a number of initiatives that will contribute to the better preservation and restoration of the child’s right to identity. The Toolkit to Prevent and Address Illicit Practices in Intercountry Adoption...

The Australian government will reform their Privacy Act, which has been criticised as not having a robust gatekeeping processes framework to protect Australian citizens from identity theft. Victims of identity theft describe their experience of having personal information collected, picked...

In the context of the recent earthquakes that affected, in particular, Turkey and Syria, it is worth remembering that, beyond the devastating humanitarian impact that these have had on children and their families, their rights to identity and family relations...

UNICEF, World Health Organization and other organizations drafted an addendum to the WHO/UNICEF guidance Health sector contributions towards improving the civil registration of births and deaths in low-income countries. The addendum reminds us that “one of the most effective ways...

The International Association of Child Law Researchers has launched a website that explains what is international parental child abduction for children and young people. Developed in partnership with young people, the website explains The 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention and...

Two researchers, Fabio Macedo and Yves Denéchère, attached to the University of Angers, with whom the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) signed an agreement in December 2021 to prepare this independent report, released their findings on 6 February. Nigel Cantwell,...

Under Danish law, adoption is prohibited in cases where payment is made to the person who consents to the adoption. In this context, in the case of K.K. and Others v Denmark, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided...

Efforts to respond to stateless populations are ongoing in the region. For example, in the Philippines, in a December 2022 case note, D. Gatmaytan, from the University of the Phillippines, noted that ‘[r]emarkably, the struggles of Senator Poe as a...

Every year, United Nations (UN) intergovernmental bodies, such as the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council, adopt several resolutions negotiated among States, which include political expressions and policy recommendations on issues relating to international law, human rights,...