CURRENT SITUATION
Likewise, millions of children have had their identity falsified or illicitly modified due to issues such as corruption, trafficking, harmful traditional practices and emergency situations.
Without an identity, children invariably face problems accessing basic rights such as education, health, development, social services, and they are also at greater risk of being sold and trafficked. These problems have a lifelong impact on the child and future generations. This is particularly true when considering the child's family relations, a constitutive element of identity.
Child Identity Protection works with States, international organisations and other stakeholders to uphold the child's right to know their origins.
OUR MISSION
Child Identity Protection is the only international not for profit organisation solely advocating for the protection of children's identity rights in family relations.
Child Identity Protection works with States and other stakeholders to provide preventive measures and appropriate responses. whenever a child is (illegally) deprived of elements of his or her identity.
Child Identity Protection was registered as an independent association according to the Swiss Civil Code in 2020 to broadly protect children's identity rights, including name, nationality and family relations.
OBJECTIVES
Child Identity Protection collaborates with States, UN agencies, international organisations and other stakeholders to ensure that international standards as well as regional standards are fully respected.
Specifically Child Identity Protection seeks to build on the work of the United Nations Legal Identity Agenda who focuses on civil registration and vital statistics by considering the family relations aspect of identity.
Child Identity Protection advocates for laws, policies and practices to uphold identity rights through:





SPECIFIC PROJECTS
Based on its vision, mission and objectives, Child Identity Protection undertakes a number of initiatives. From the outset, there will be a focus on:

HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING

SIGNATURE PUBLICATION
