Topic: Advocacy and Policy

Submission Identity Rights Working Group (IDRWG) 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
By Pascal Rudin
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
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Side event: Digitalisation and the child’s right to identity – a tool for inclusion or exclusion?
By Pascal Rudin
Side event: Digitalisation and the child’s right to identity – a tool for inclusion or exclusion? REGISTRATION Click here to register OVERVIEW Side event: Digitalisation
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Briefing with the CRC Committee on child’s right to identity
By Pascal Rudin
Child Identity Protection (CHIP) with its partners ATD Fourth World, European Network on Statelessness (ENS), Global Survivors Fund (GSF), Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI),
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Launch of report on birth registration of children born through surrogacy arrangements in the region
By Pascal Rudin
The United Nations Children’s Fund’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNICEF LACRO), the Organization of American States (OAS) and Child Identity Protection
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Submission to the Australian Law Review Commission’s Discussion Paper Review of Surrogacy Laws
By Pascal Rudin
Child Identity Protection (CHIP) welcomes this opportunity to provide input to the Australian Law Review Commission’s (ALRC) Discussion Paper Review of Surrogacy Laws (Discussion Paper).
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Training at leading Universities on the Child’s Right to Identity
By Pascal Rudin
Over the year, Mia Dambach, Executive Director was able to provide a number of lectures at the University of Geneva and University of Leiden. In
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Webinar series on “I was born. I exist. Add me to the list.” Accelerating birth registration for the hardest-to-reach populations — those living in poverty
By Pascal Rudin
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
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Surrogacy research published in the International Journal of Children’s Rights
By Pascal Rudin
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
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Committee of Experts on access to origins
By Pascal Rudin
On 28-30 October, the Committee had its second meeting to continue its work on the draft recommendation on the rights of donor-conceived persons to know
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October 2025, Chile: The country’s new and innovative adoption legislation at the heart of an event on child identity and participation
By Mia Dambach
The @Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), @TransformAdopción, @GRISIJ and the @Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) recently held an online international seminar in the framework of
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