October 2025, Spain: Participation of Child Identity Protection in a conference on care and adoption held in Galicia
Following in the steps of its five previous biennial events, MANAIA – the care and adoption association of Galicia, founded by adoptive families – held
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October 2025, Americas: Publication of a compendium of decisions on children’s rights by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, together with Mexico’s Supreme Court, recently published a comprehensive systematisation of decisions made by the first in the field
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September 2025, Africa and Asia: Dissemination of various guides to improve civil registration and vital statistics systems
Various organisations have come together to develop the Practitioners’ Guide on Digital Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems aimed at relevant stakeholders in Africa, based
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Comments on the Report on the different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of surrogacy presented by Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences (A/80/158)
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
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August 2025, World: Launch of UNICEF’s new report on early childhood development in Eastern and Southern Africa
UNICEF’s recently-launched report, Igniting the Potential of Young Children presents the latest evidence on early childhood development (ECD) in Eastern and Southern Africa, offers a
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August 2025, Asia-Pacific: Landmark commitment by the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in the region
Government representatives from across Asia and the Pacific met in Bangkok recently to address progress and remaining challenges in the development of universal and inclusive
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August 2025, Europe: Launch of a new publication on preventing childhood statelessness across the region
In July, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (ODIHR/OSCE), the OSCE High Commissioner on
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August 2025, France : Draft resolution to guarantee every individual an effective right of access to their origins, presented by Ms. Géraldine BANNIER, Member of Parliament.
Draft resolution n°1167, submitted on March 21, 2025, by MP Géraldine Bannier, calls for a reform ensuring an effective right of access to personal origins.
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Catch-up birth registration in schools
As part of an initiative launched by the Ministry of Basic Education of Cameroon (MINEDUB), Ministry of Decentralization and Local Development (MINDDEVEL), Ministry of Justice,
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June 2025, World: UNICEF and ILO’s joint publication on Child Labour
Although in 2015 the world made a promise to end child labour by 2025, this phenomenon still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide. The report
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