Various organisations have come together to develop the Practitioners’ Guide on Digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems aimed at relevant stakeholders in Africa, based on initial work in November 2024, under the guidance of the Africa regional core group...

Efforts to respond to stateless populations are ongoing in the region. For example, in the Philippines, in a December 2022 case note, D. Gatmaytan, from the University of the Phillippines, noted that ‘[r]emarkably, the struggles of Senator Poe as a...

The ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and the Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) in cooperation with UNHCR, is working on the implementation of the recommendations of the ACWC study on “Legal Identity of All Women and...