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...

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...

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....

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,...