At its sixty-first session (23 February-31 March 2026), the Human Rights Council adopted several resolutions addressing the protection of human rights, including issues directly affecting children across contexts such as migration, minority rights, conflict and exploitation. The resolution on “Human...

The Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution on the rights of the child affected by armed conflict during its sixty-first session. The resolution reaffirms that armed conflict severely undermines the full enjoyment of children’s rights, including their rights to...

The Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution on birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law during its sixty-first session, updating the 2023 resolution. The resolution reaffirms that birth registration is essential...

UNHCR and UN Women have released the Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2026, providing updated global data on gender discrimination in nationality legislation and its links to statelessness. The publication highlights that despite significant progress over...

The World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) initiative has published a new report titled Building Statelessness-Sensitive ID Systems, providing guidance for policymakers and development practitioners on designing identification systems that are inclusive of stateless people and those at risk of...

The IDRWG welcomes the opportunity to provide inputs for the OHCHR study on the impact of mental health challenges on the enjoyment of human rights by young people, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 57/30. The organizations within the IDRWG...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) is pleased to collaborate with the host organisation ATD Fourth World and partners, African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) and UNICEF on this webinar series that follow-ups on the international roundtable on 17 October 2024. The webinar...

CHIP’s special advisers Professors David Smolin and Katarina Trimmings with Mia Dambach have just published an article on how the European Court of Human Rights Cross-Border Surrogacy Decisions Unintentionally Undermine the Child’s Right to Identity, the Prohibition of Child Sale and...

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...