As part of their Insight Series, Consortium for Street Children held a webinar on the importance of belonging on 11 April, where the right to identity was at the centre of discussions. Based on multiple Focus Group Discussions held with...

The United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) and The Freedom Fund have released a global evidence review on ‘Modern Slavery Risks Among People Lacking Official Documentation’. This report examines how access to official documentation is a foundational step...

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 research foundation RETHINKIN has released a book entitled ‘The Right to Identity and Access to Information on Genetic Origin and Parentage,’ which explores the right to identity from an international human rights perspective. This volume compares the national regulations...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) released a study entitled ‘Targeted by Terrorists: Child Recruitment, Exploitation, and Reintegration in Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria’. With the support of the European Commission through the project #STRIVEJuvenile, this study highlights...

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...

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...

RI, an unaccompanied Syrian child, arrived in Austria in 2015 and was granted refugee status by the authorities. Between 2017 and 2018, his parents and his adult sister applied for residence permits in Austria on two occasions with the purpose...

GTB, a Spanish national, was born to his Spanish mother in 1985 in Mexico. His birth was not registered with the Civil Registry in the Spanish Consulate and shortly after he was repatriated to Spain with his mother and brother....

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...