The United Nations Children’s Fund’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNICEF LACRO), the Organization of American States (OAS) and Child Identity Protection (CHIP), with the endorsement of the Latin American and Caribbean Council for Civil Registration, Identity...

CHIP’s special advisers Professors David Smolin and Katarina Trimmings with Mia Dambach have just published an article on how the European Court of Human Rights Cross-Border Surrogacy Decisions Unintentionally Undermine the Child’s Right to Identity, the Prohibition of Child Sale and...

Following CHIP’s participation in the conference on ‘Avoiding Origin Deprivation and Genetic Identity Losses’ at Queen’s University Belfast in May 2023, CHIP has contributed to the latest issue of Adoption & Culture, which also includes a number of other articles...

After years of preparation and perseverance, the editors Claire Achmad, Sharon Shakargy and Katarina Trimmings – two of whom are CHIP special advisors – have launched a comprehensive handbook on surrogacy. It not only includes Chapters specifically targeting issues related...

The goal of drastically reducing numbers of children living in institutions around the world has been a key focus of coherent efforts to realise children’s rights for over a decade, with important advances being made. Despite important shifts, there remain urgent...

To be also published in an upcoming Research Handbook on Surrogacy (eds. Katarina Trimmings, Sharon Shakargy & Claire Achmad; Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd), this paper written by Mia Dambach and Nigel Cantwell (CHIP advisor) explains the different issues linked to...

To be published in an upcoming Research Handbook on Surrogacy (eds. Katarina Trimmings, Sharon Shakargy & Claire Achmad; Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd), this paper written by David Smolin (CHIP advisor) and Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (CHIP president), explains among other things...

Child Identity Protection is honoured to be collaborating with the Flemish Government in the context of its reforms for the procedure for intercountry adoptions to Flanders. The decision to reform was a result of the findings of a panel of...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) has been awarded by UNICEF a consultancy to develop a comprehensive Legal Atlas that captures the relevant laws pertaining to the child’s right to identity (birth registration, name, nationality and family relations). Significant efforts are now...