In line with Human Rights Council Resolution 52/25, this study presents digital technologies as an additional tool to help achieve target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which aims to ensure legal identity for all by 2030. These technologies can...

Child Identity Protection welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the upcoming thematic report on surrogacy and violence against women and girls. There is no international consensus from a legal, normative, policy, or ethical perspective on surrogacy. States parties to...

The 2025 report reveals that 24 countries still deny women the right to confer their nationality to their children on an equal basis with men, perpetuating statelessness. Discriminatory nationality laws can leave children without citizenship, particularly when fathers are unknown,...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights recently published its report on international human rights standards relevant to care and support, promising practices and challenges, and suggested recommendations on promoting human rights in care and support systems (A/HRC/58/43). In...

UNICEF reports that in today’s world, technology could play a role in better protecting children. Digital public infrastructure (DPI) “can play a crucial role in advancing children’s well-being by ensuring equitable access to essential services such as education, healthcare 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...

The report reveals that the world is home to over 200 million children under 5 without a birth certificate, including 150 million unregistered children and 55 million children whose births are reported as registered but lack proof in the form...