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...

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...