We welcome the Special Rapporteur’s initiative to foreground women’s rights in surrogacy, alongside children’s rights, following the recommendations already made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children in her 2018 and 2019 reports. Our...

Although in 2015 the world made a promise to end child labour by 2025, this phenomenon still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide. The report emphasizes the urgency of action and reiterates that success is possible through policy commitment, resources,...

The OECD has published an important technical paper on the legal and policy landscape of age assurance online for child safety and well-being. It outlines the efforts and challenges of implementing better and stricter systems, detailing the various legal frameworks...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights recently published a report on accessible, inclusive, equitable and quality education for peace and tolerance for every child, especially children in the most vulnerable situations (A/HRC/59/33). This report was...

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,...