The Handbook provides guidance and assistance to countries to help them strategically design and carry out evidence based and measurable communication for development activities in support of a comprehensive improvement programme of civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems....

CHIP congratulates its President, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio – a formidable force of nature with multiple “top” hats – for her recent selection to be part of the Commission for Protection of Minors. Established in March 2014 this Commission seeks to...

This advocacy brief is based on a desk review of practices in 38 European States in relation to the detention of asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children, either upon or after arrival, for reasons relating to immigration or asylum. It seeks...

A group of UN experts just issued a joint statement declaring that “illegal intercountry adoptions may violate the prohibition of abduction, sale of or trafficking in children and the prohibition of enforced disappearances”, while “urging States to take action to...

Indigenous groups from four islands in Australia’s Torres Strait region made a complaint that Australia had “failed to adapt to climate change by, inter alia, upgrading seawalls on the islands and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” When national remedies have failed,...

UNICEF has published a report on children in armed conflict which offers comprehensive information and data from the last 25 years as well as solutions to prevent grave violations children’s rights in these contexts. This publication includes: an agenda to...

The ICCS Convention (No. 34) on the issue of multilingual and coded extracts from civil-status records and multilingual and coded civil-status certificates signed at Strasbourg on 14 March 2014 entered into force on July 1, 2022 between Belgium, Germany and...

In a case involving Chile and Spain, a child J.M born in Spain was moved to Chile at aged 15 months to receive medical treatment by his Chilean mother, approved by the Spanish father. A year later the Spanish father...

Following the DGD in September 2021, the CRC Committee published its outcome report and recommendations in June. The report notes the issue of child’s identity and family connections as a common theme, as well as acknowledges the multiple self-advocates who...

Knowing origins is a right. 30 May has been set aside by donor conceived organisations to raise awareness about the necessity of “knowing their complete genetic identity, including medical history and ancestral identity.” Child Identity Protection (CHIP) would like to...