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...
- 23 January 2023
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...
- 23 January 2023
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,...
- 18 January 2023
The South Korean government has established a Commission to investigate 34 cases out of 200,000 adoptees in Europe and the United States who suspect their origins were falsified and concealed due to illegal adoptions in the mid to late 1900s....
- 21 December 2022
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) recently published their report titled Addressing Statelessness through the Rule of Law. It mainly focuses on statelessness and the right to nationality, on how the rule...
- 21 December 2022
Amnesty International reminds us that, according to international humanitarian law, members of the same family should not be separated in the process of an occupying power undertaking transfers or evacuations. The report notes that “regarding adoptions of Ukrainian children in Russia,...
- 05 December 2022
Supporting Stolen Generations, their families and communities through a holistic reparations package
The State of Victoria has introduced a reparation package with compensation for thousands of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) persons – that were removed by a government or non-government agency before 31 December 1976, while under the age of...
- 11 November 2022
Following the French government’s commitment in February 2022 to shed light on the phenomenon of illicit intercountry adoptions from the 1980s onwards, a new step has been taken. The Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Justice (le...
- 11 November 2022
The present report was submitted to the General Assembly on the progress in advancing children’s rights agenda in armed conflict. A trend of grave violations is the abduction of children, which in the last year has increased by 20 per...
- 07 November 2022
The Handbook provides guidance and assistance to countries to help them strategically design and carry out evidence based and measurable communication for development activities in support of a comprehensive improvement programme of civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems....
- 07 November 2022
