No identity, no protection: How lack of identity documents drives exploitation and modern slavery
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Target 16.9 focuses on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration.
The CRVS community in Asia and the Pacific has reflected on where it stands at the midpoint of the CRVS Decade (2015-2024) during the Second Ministerial Conference. Following this celebration of progress, many of our partners and member countries are leading actions to fill the remaining gaps. To learn more about CRVS in Asia and the Pacific, please subscribe to our newsletter, which offers a monthly panorama of CRVS actions throughout the region Previous editions can be found here. |
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Target 16.9 focuses on providing legal identity for all, including birth registration.
ESCAP's Statistics Division has released a Stats Brief on Understanding and Improving Adult Mortality Measurement in a Changing Demographic Landscape, as part of ESCAP’s work on civil registration and vital statistics funded under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative (D4H) Project.
A recently published research article documents the sharp improvement in on-time birth registration nationally in Fiji from 58% prior to the incentive to 93% during the incentive.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Indonesia held a seminar in Jakarta on 17 September 2024 to discuss the issuance of Official Birth or Death Certificates or Notifications.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Indonesia, in partnership with the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, developed a Digital Gateway - an online, multi-lingual self-service portal, allowing refugees and asylum-seekers in Indonesia to create accounts and remotely access, record and update personal information w
Join the Measuring Adult Mortality Community of Practice (MAM-CoP) on Monday 30 September 2024 for a discussion on ideas for improvement and implementation of recommendations in measuring adult mortality.