UNICEF launches its Child protection strategy 2021-2030

Child Identity Protection (CHIP) welcomes this roadmap to achieve all children’s rights and meet the SDGs objectives. The strategy outlines a number of pressing issues related to achieving the child’s right identity, with thematic priorities being legal identity, access to justice and prevention of family separation, applicable to all countries, including high income. For the first time, the challenges that arise with assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy, were acknowledged. In particular, the strategy notes “in the absence of national frameworks providing safeguards for domestic and international surrogacy arrangement in compliance with human rights, children born through such arrangements, especially commercial arrangements, are vulnerable to breaches of their rights including the right to an identity (name, nationality, family relations and access to origins).” CHIP looks forward to working with actors to fully achieve the child’s right to identity, through preservation and restoration.

Source: https://www.unicef.org/media/104416/file/Child-Protection-Strategy-2021.pdf