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In November 2023, the multidisciplinary research group AFIN – based at the Autonomous University of Barcelona – organised a very interesting online seminar titled Desplazamientos y adopciones irregulares en España (Displacements and irregular adoptions in Spain). CHIP had the honour...

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....

The Provincial High Court of Guipúzcoa has for the first time granted Spanish nationality to a seven-year-old girl born in transit to Spain. After not being recognised by Morocco, where she was born, nor by her mother’s country, Cameroon, nor...

The Spanish Supreme Court ruled that commercial surrogacy is contrary to the Law on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques (Art. 10), which establishes the nullity of such agreements and the determination of parentage by childbirth. They found that it seriously violates...

Amnesty International has recently released a new report on babies being removed from their families during the Franco dictatorship until the 90’s in Spain. The report highlights the child’s right to identity where a significant number of people have key...