On 28 September, the Identity Rights Working Group and Global Alliance to End Statelessness held its second informal consultation on optimising UN mechanisms to better preserve the child’s right to identity.  Children’s identity rights are already protected across the CRC, the statelessness conventions,...

The side-event was organised in the margins of the 63rd session of the Human Rights Council bringing together governments, UN actors and practitioners to look at how health, education, social protection, civil registration and identity systems can work together to...

This legal memorandum addresses child rights concerns regarding proposed amendments to the Civil Code; those proposed amendments may be, at least in part, a response to decisions from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The proposed amendments address “the...

Following CHIP’s participation in research into foster placement decisions in Switzerland according to the evolution of international standards, a child-friendly guide in (English | French | German | Italian) was drawn up, with the support of the FNS and various...

Members of the CHIP team are very pleased to have been able to participate in one of the projects (Coercive decisions in Switzerland through the lens of international standards : foster care placements), under the direction of Prof. Philip Jaffé....

The key findings and conclusions of NRP 76 (150 researchers) are available in a synthesis report “Interventions in people’s lives” which summarizes the findings of the research projects, makes recommendations for policy, practice and stakeholders. The report’s conclusions were presented...

In collaboration with OHCHR and UNICEF, CHIP supported the implementation of the 2023 Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/RES/52/25 on Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. As part of this resolution, a recommendation was...

Following an earlier report published in 2020 on the adoption of children from Sri Lanka, this new report confirms a lack of adequate measures taken by the Swiss authorities in contexts of serious signs of irregularities during adoption proceedings in...

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) brings new opportunities to have a family, especially for those where it may not have been biologically possible. As parents want the very best for their children, this arguably includes ensuring that they are able to...