In a series of recent judgements at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), there has been a degressive trend from international norms, guaranteeing the child’s right to identity in family relations (Art. 8(1) CRC). In the decision Gauvin-Fournis and...

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...

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) through its Executive Director was privileged to provide an expert view on the hearing on “Abusive practices on depriving children from their family environment” to held by Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development within...

Led by Hope and Homes for Children, a joint contribution was drafted to offer inputs to the process of review of EU’s Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims. The contribution, which was...

Under Danish law, adoption is prohibited in cases where payment is made to the person who consents to the adoption. In this context, in the case of K.K. and Others v Denmark, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided...

The Council of Europe’s Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons recently and unanimously adopted the report ‘Protection and alternative care for unaccompanied and separated migrant and refugee children’ (Doc. 15548), which includes a specific part on the current situation...

The first special commission for HCCH 2007 Child Support Convention was held in a hybrid format at the Hague from 17 to 19 May 2022. Child Identity Protection (CHIP) had the privilege attending noting that this Convention reiterates the importance...

The Council of Europe launched its Strategy for the Rights of the Child 2022-2027 in which it identified six strategic objectives to ensure the rights and best interests of the child, and three cross-cutting issues (gender-sensitive approach, anti-discrimination approach, child...

On 13 January 2022, the European Court of Human Rights delivered a new judgment in a case concerning eight applicants, Afghan and Pakistani nationals. They had fled their country and settled in Azerbaijan where they registered with the UNHCR and...

Two years ago, a child was born in Spain to a same-sex couple – one mother is from Bulgaria, the other mother is from the UK. The child’s Spanish birth certificate lists both mothers as her parents. The legal systems...