As part of the Annual Day on the Rights of the Child on 9 March 2022, the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on family reunification, with a specific focus on children in migration and international protection and children allegedly...

The Civil Registration Vital Statistics (CRVS) Inception Workshop for Assessing Inequalities in Registration was held on 11 March 2022 in Lao PDR. The key purposes of the workshop were “to provide an overview of the project, to further develop relationships...

The Committee on the Rights of the Child recently met with the Netherlands regarding children who are stateless and children in conflict situations in Syria. Children in Syria have had access to Dutch diplomatic assistance, however, the Netherlands has not...

Girls Not Brides published its partnership strategy until 2025. It presents six shared goals. With its partners Girls Not Brides intends in particular to “amplify the voices of girls at risk of child marriage and defend girls’ rights to health,...

As mentioned by UN statistical commission “Although significant progress has been made across the world, universal registration of vital events is yet to be achieved and millions of people worldwide are born and die without any legal tender of their...

Get everyone in the picture brings to our attention the work of Vital Strategies which called for attention to the progress being made in many countries. Vital strategies noted that “experience from the first six years of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Data for...

UNICEF reminds us that each year, 12 million girls are married before their 18th birthday and that if progress is not accelerated, more than 150 million girls will become brides too young by 2030. In developing countries, pregnancy and childbirth...

This book provides the first-ever comprehensive legal analysis of orphanage trafficking in international law by exploring the process of orphanage trafficking as a form of child trafficking in international law. In doing so, the author examines the process of orphanage...

This open access book is the first publication that discusses the core attributes of each article in the UNCRC, analysing every child’s right, as well as the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The...

The Human Rights Council (HRC) will dedicate its next annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child to take place in March 2022 on the theme “the rights of the child and family reunification”. As per usual practice, it...