In a case involving Chile and Spain, a child J.M born in Spain was moved to Chile at aged 15 months to receive medical treatment by his Chilean mother, approved by the Spanish father. A year later the Spanish father...

This article explains how more efforts should be made to prevent family separation and how kinship care is a solution which is not well enough explored. According to the article “Research shows that children who have been removed from their...

Following the DGD in September 2021, the CRC Committee published its outcome report and recommendations in June. The report notes the issue of child’s identity and family connections as a common theme, as well as acknowledges the multiple self-advocates who...

The Provincial High Court of Guipúzcoa has for the first time granted Spanish nationality to a seven-year-old girl born in transit to Spain. After not being recognised by Morocco, where she was born, nor by her mother’s country, Cameroon, nor...

The Council of Europe’s Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons recently and unanimously adopted the report ‘Protection and alternative care for unaccompanied and separated migrant and refugee children’ (Doc. 15548), which includes a specific part on the current situation...

The meeting, co-organized by the Pakistan Embassy and Statistics Division, aims to address the problem of low civil registration rates over the last several decades. “This shifting of some or all the reporting responsibility away from the individual and onto...

24,000 enumerators spread out across this Central Asian country of 7 million to finally conduct the national population and housing census that had been postponed for two years because of COVID-19. As reminded by UNFPA, “because census data, which is collected every ten...

Knowing origins is a right. 30 May has been set aside by donor conceived organisations to raise awareness about the necessity of “knowing their complete genetic identity, including medical history and ancestral identity.” Child Identity Protection (CHIP) would like to...

The first special commission for HCCH 2007 Child Support Convention was held in a hybrid format at the Hague from 17 to 19 May 2022. Child Identity Protection (CHIP) had the privilege attending noting that this Convention reiterates the importance...

The Spanish Supreme Court ruled that commercial surrogacy is contrary to the Law on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques (Art. 10), which establishes the nullity of such agreements and the determination of parentage by childbirth. They found that it seriously violates...