How South Sudanese refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan are reclaiming their identity in South Sudan | UNHCR Africa In 2016, deadly conflict reached Wau town, north-western South Sudan, where 49-year-old pharmacist Michael Angelo Ufo and his family had called home for years, forcing them to flee to White Nile State in Sudan to save their lives. But a few years later, Ufo and his family had to relive these memories when renewed conflict erupted in Sudan in April 2023.

UNHCR supported 31,010 South Sudanese returnees from Sudan to establish identity documentation and nationality certification in 2023-25 - good but a small % of the total I imagine #legalidentity www.unhcr.org/africa/news/...

Legal Atlas Landing – Child Identity Protection

@unicef.org new Legal Atlas on Birth Registration #legalidentity www.child-identity.org/legal-atlas-...

Identity management manual - World Manual and Guideline in English on World about Protection and Human Rights; published on 20 Jan 2026 by IOM

@iom.int issues new Identity Management Manual #legalidentity #digitalID
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Regional Workshop on Advancing Nationality Rights and Legal Identity for Children Affected by Armed Conflict, Organized by the Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict in P...

Just caught up with this: Office of the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, UNHCR & Arab League Workshop held in November on Nationality Rights and #LegalIdentity for Children Affected by Armed Conflict childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/2025/11/regi...

Statelessness and Digital Identity | Caribou How digital ID systems affect stateless people, and why inclusion must go beyond registration to ensure rights and recognition

A short brief from me on #statelessness and digital identity just published by Caribou; thanks to @emryss.bsky.social & @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social for their inputs and support #legalidentity #digitalID caribou.global/publications...

Switzerland: Voters Approve Electronic ID Law in National Referendum On September 28, 2025, Swiss voters narrowly approved the Federal Act on Electronic Identification Services (e-ID Act) (Bundesgesetz über den elektronischen Identitätsnachweis und andere elektronische...

Switzerland: Voters Approve Electronic ID Law in National Referendum - US Library of Congress summary #digitalID #legalidentity www.loc.gov/item/global-...

Another report confirms often harmful impacts of digital ID for those excluded from access - single point of exclusion creates wave effects across multiple services #digitalID #legalidentity

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Digital Legal ID Governance Good governance of legal digital ID is a foundational element of digital public infrastructure (DPI). Welcome to UNDPs new framework for navigating towards a rights-based, multi-stakeholder, governanc...

Good to see the UNDP Model Governance Framework for Digital Legal Identity Systems used as a resource for better practice #digitalID #legalidentity www.governance4id.org

New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans

US: New rule that passports must now reflect the sex on a person’s original birth certificate, reversing decades old policy #legalidentity
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Burkina Faso introduces new biometric ID system in major digital leap | Biometric Update The military leader of Burkina Faso has set a new biometric national ID card initiative in motion to replace the longstanding legacy identification system.

Burkina Faso: new biometric ID card will serve as the primary legal identification tool for every Burkinabé citizen, to be issued to children _from the age of five_ #legalidentity #digitalID
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Global progress in identification: 3 findings from the latest data Legal and digital IDs are key to inclusion—unlocking access to healthcare, education, finance, and social protection. Yet 800 million people still lack a legal ID and 2.9 billion lack digital IDs. The...

World Bank ID4D update on identification coverage statistics from the Global Findex Database 2025 #legalidentity blogs.worldbank.org/en/digital-d...

'digital only' is always a bad idea in proof of #legalidentity.

CoE Search - CM

New @coe.int Recommendation on rights of intersex persons, including in relation to birth registration, legal recognition of gender & family life #legalidentity
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Mothers and staff tell of global charity's role in child disappearances under Assad regime The Assad regime used an international charity to hide children of detainees from their families.

Syrian echoes of Argentina -- it was the disappearance of the children of detainees under the military regime that led Argentina's new democratic government to insist on the inclusion of the right to identity in art 8 CRC #legalidentity #childrights
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Sweden: Supreme Court Rules Husband who Died Before Wife Received Fertilized Egg Is Legal Father of Child On July 30, 2025, the Swedish Supreme Court ruled that a man can be assigned the legal status “father” of a child even when the child is born more than nine months after the man’s death. (Swedish Supr...

#Legalidentity decision from Sweden's Supreme Court
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@lhr-sa.bsky.social powerful new video highlighting #statelessness caused by challenges of accessing #legalidentity documents in South Africa www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tW...

UN Migration Network Guidance Note on the Intersection of #LegalIdentity and Return, Readmission, and Reintegration
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📅 On #AfricaCRVSday, #UNICEF #Tanzania’s Simplified Birth Registration System #evaluation shows impact: 9.4M+ births registered since launch, now active in all 184 councils. Under-5 registration rose from 26% (2016) to 68% (2022). #EveryChildCounts #LegalIdentity

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Sri Lanka: Supreme Court Orders Government to Issue National Identity Card that Includes Buddhist Nun’s Title On June 17, 2025, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka issued a landmark judgment ordering the Commissioner General of the Department of Registration of Persons to reverse longstanding policy and issue a na...

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Decades after, Nigeria wobbles to produce physical ID cards for citizens The National Identification Number (NIN) system was introduced in Nigeria to provide a reliable means of identifying all citizens

Nigeria #digitalID challenges continue - NIMC failure to produce physical cards creates a market for private enterprise #legalidentity guardian.ng/features/dec...

Casually perusing the fantastic @ials.bsky.social library today when I unexpectedly came across a copy of my book on display! Written with a Foreword by the one and only Junot Díaz, I’m very touched that people are still reading/citing. #legalidentity #digitalidentity #statelessness #citizenship

Amongst the issues highlighted in this paper on UN pullback from Iraq is lack of identity documents for IDPs & returnees and refugees from Syria - and the loss of UN advocacy for this to be remedied #legalidentity

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Honored to moderate a vibrant discussion by panels from 🇫🇯 🇰🇬🇳🇵🇱🇰🇹🇭 at 🇺🇳UN ESCAP Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.🙏🏻
Our dialogue reconfirmed the criticality of inclusive #CRVS systems that ensure #legalidentity for all.
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How do we protect children’s legal identity amid climate crises?
Join @UNICEF at #3MCCRVS for a side event on building climate-resilient birth registration systems, with insights from Nepal, PNG, and Philippines.
🗓️ 26/06/25 | 12:45 BKK | Rm A / Online
#CRVS #LegalIdentity #ClimateResilience #UNICEF

Adoptive Parents Urge Gov’t to Reform National ID, Passport System for Parentless Children Adoptive parents in Uganda are calling on the government to urgently reform the country’s national identification system, which they say discriminates against children without known biological parents...

Children of unknown parents left (at least at risk of) #statelessness in Uganda - without possibility of applying for national ID - despite provisions in the citizenship act for foundlings and adopted children #legalidentity chimpreports.com/adoptive-par...

Institute Statelessness and Inclusion

New CFP for a special issue of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review on “Citizenship, #statelessness and emerging technologies” - 15 Oct deadline #legalidentity #digitalID www.institutesi.org/news/scr-spe...