The Centre for Child Law has released two informative guides aimed at clarifying the complex issues surrounding child citizenship and visa options in South Africa. These manuals are designed for parents, caregivers, social workers, and legal representatives and aim to...

KIDIMO, the new children’s rights app, has been available in Switzerland since August 31, 2023 in all three national languages. The app is the fruit of more than three years’ work by OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule. Its design and implementation involved...

Last month, the UN Special Rapporteur on sale and sexual exploitation (UN SR) and a consortium of stakeholders have produced a report that addresses the complex ethical dimensions of voluntourism and its effects on children. This report underscored the unintended...

The report For every child, an identity: Challenges in birth registration for children affected by migration in Peninsular Malaysia was commissioned by UNICEF Malaysia Country Office and was produced with the financial support of the European Union under the “Protecting...

The world’s indigenous peoples are keepers and practitioners of unique cultures and traditions that are distinct from the dominant societies in which they live. Throughout history, indigenous peoples have sought to protect and defend their territories and way of life,...

On 13 July 2023, the Human Rights Council adopted as orally revised without a vote a new resolution on the right to nationality. This resolution seeks to tackle the issue of discrimination in nationality laws, where in a number of...

The Lok Sabha on August 1 passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023 that paves the way for digital birth certificates which will be a single document to be used for admission to educational institutions, applications for driving licences, government...

The following two reports launched globally focus on different circumstances, in which children’s right to identity may be at risk. UNHCR’s report, Global Trends – Forced Displacement in 2022, outlines the global trends of this phenomenon in 2022. It includes...

Children’s Voices in Surrogacy Law is a project which gathers and analyses the views of children and young people on surrogacy law reform, with a current focus on the United Kingdom. Phase One involved 25 children who had experience of...

The policy brief reminds us that birth registration is mandatory in Nepal and is required for enrolment in schools, accessing health services, for obtaining national citizenship, passport etc. and that, in 2016, 56% of the children under the age of...