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...

In a first-ever publication, this research persuasively shows the importance of the right to have one’s family relations legally established or recognised as a stand-alone right, as an essential feature of the child’s identity. Closely linked with the right to...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) is pleased to announce the publication of the results of field research conducted by Anne-Marie Piché, Professor at the School of Social Work at the Université of Québec in Montréal (UQAM). This research brought together the...