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
CHIP congratulates its President, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio – a formidable force of nature with multiple “top” hats – for her recent selection to be part of the Commission for Protection of Minors. Established in March 2014 this Commission seeks to...
- 24 October 2022
The BBC News published an article of heartbreaking testimonies of adult adoptees in Ireland whom for decades have gone through the arduous processes obtaining birth certificates or tracing their family origins. Four adoptees shared testimonies of the difficulties they have...
- 10 October 2022
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) releases an article of testimonies of Celestino Bissau a father of five children in Mozambique whom like thousands have lost all civil identity documentation as a result of armed conflict. There are currently 1...
- 10 October 2022
