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...

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...

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...

This advocacy brief is based on a desk review of practices in 38 European States in relation to the detention of asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children, either upon or after arrival, for reasons relating to immigration or asylum. It seeks...

A group of UN experts just issued a joint statement declaring that “illegal intercountry adoptions may violate the prohibition of abduction, sale of or trafficking in children and the prohibition of enforced disappearances”, while “urging States to take action to...

Set up in March 2022, in conformity with this Council’s resolution 49/1, the Commission h visited 27 towns and settlements and has interviewed more than 150 victims and witnesses. They have “inspected sites of destruction, graves, places of detention and...

Indigenous groups from four islands in Australia’s Torres Strait region made a complaint that Australia had “failed to adapt to climate change by, inter alia, upgrading seawalls on the islands and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” When national remedies have failed,...

UNICEF has published a report on children in armed conflict which offers comprehensive information and data from the last 25 years as well as solutions to prevent grave violations children’s rights in these contexts. This publication includes: an agenda to...

The Olympic star runner Sir Mo Farah has recently revealed in a documentary by the BBC and Red Bull Studios that he was illegally brought to the UK as a child by a woman he had never met and forced...

The ICCS Convention (No. 34) on the issue of multilingual and coded extracts from civil-status records and multilingual and coded civil-status certificates signed at Strasbourg on 14 March 2014 entered into force on July 1, 2022 between Belgium, Germany and...