A child-friendly version of the 2024 Report by the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children to the Human Rights Council entitled ‘Children on the Move- They Have Rights, and their Rights Move with them!’ has been...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released the 2024 edition of the ‘Background note on gender equality, nationality laws, and statelessness’. This publication highlights gender equality issues in nationality laws and causes of statelessness. Currently, 24 countries have...

This year, the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child including a resolution was dedicated the rights of the child and inclusive social protection. The resolution includes a helpful paragraph that notes the importance of the child having a...

The Global Survivors Fund has released its outcome report based on an Expert Roundtable on Children born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Breaking down Barriers to the Rights to Identity and Nationality that took place in June 2023. This outcome report...

After years of preparation and perseverance, the editors Claire Achmad, Sharon Shakargy and Katarina Trimmings – two of whom are CHIP special advisors – have launched a comprehensive handbook on surrogacy. It not only includes Chapters specifically targeting issues related...

UNICEF recently launched its newest publication, Collecting Data on Early Childhood Development in Household Surveys. In line with the SDGs, the latter intends to ‘guide the collection of reliable, internationally comparable data on key ECD indicators that can be produced...

Family for every child launched in December 2023 the ‘Supporting Integration’ toolkit documents (“Supporting Integration: A Toolkit for Practitioners Working with Children and Young People on the Move”), which shares good practice guidance for practitioners working with child migrants. The...

At the end of 2023, UNICEF launched its new data portal on child marriage. The Child Marriage Data Portal measures countries’ progress towards the achievement of relevant SDGs, through country profiles and an exploration of trends in moving forward towards...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) has offered inputs to inform the forthcoming global report on the role of public service delivery in the promotion and protection of human rights and in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including in relation to...

As part of global efforts to ensure that the role of caregivers, particularly of women, is acknowledged and further supported, a new resolution was adopted at the 54th session of the Human Rights Council on 10 October. For children and...