Every year, United Nations (UN) intergovernmental bodies, such as the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Council, adopt several resolutions negotiated among States, which include political expressions and policy recommendations on issues relating to international law, human rights,...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) recently published their report titled Addressing Statelessness through the Rule of Law. It mainly focuses on statelessness and the right to nationality, on how the rule...

The present report was submitted to the General Assembly on the progress in advancing children’s rights agenda in armed conflict. A trend of grave violations is the abduction of children, which in the last year has increased by 20 per...

The Handbook provides guidance and assistance to countries to help them strategically design and carry out evidence based and measurable communication for development activities in support of a comprehensive improvement programme of civil registration, vital statistics and identity management systems....

CHIP congratulates its President, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio – a formidable force of nature with multiple “top” hats – for her recent selection to be part of the Commission for Protection of Minors. Established in March 2014 this Commission seeks to...

This advocacy brief is based on a desk review of practices in 38 European States in relation to the detention of asylum-seeking, refugee and migrant children, either upon or after arrival, for reasons relating to immigration or asylum. It seeks...

A group of UN experts just issued a joint statement declaring that “illegal intercountry adoptions may violate the prohibition of abduction, sale of or trafficking in children and the prohibition of enforced disappearances”, while “urging States to take action to...

Indigenous groups from four islands in Australia’s Torres Strait region made a complaint that Australia had “failed to adapt to climate change by, inter alia, upgrading seawalls on the islands and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” When national remedies have failed,...

UNICEF has published a report on children in armed conflict which offers comprehensive information and data from the last 25 years as well as solutions to prevent grave violations children’s rights in these contexts. This publication includes: an agenda to...

The ICCS Convention (No. 34) on the issue of multilingual and coded extracts from civil-status records and multilingual and coded civil-status certificates signed at Strasbourg on 14 March 2014 entered into force on July 1, 2022 between Belgium, Germany and...