ONLINE EVENT: Legal Identity, Nationality, and Name of Children on the Move in the Americas

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850 million people worldwide lack identification documents. Although a phenomenon that affects people regardless of age, it tends to have a disproportionate impact on children, especially during early childhood.

Within the framework of the Child Migration Working Group, which the Inter-American Dialogue has promoted since 2022, and to address this urgent and relevant issue, the Dialogue is hosting a webinar titled “Legal Identity, Nationality, and Name of Children on the Move in the Americas” on May 16 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT.  This online event will feature a panel of regional experts who will address the issues of legal identity, nationality and, statelessness, with a special focus on children, as well as the challenges that lie ahead at the regional level. Human rights activist Maha Mamo will provide a testimony of her personal experience.

The webinar will also present the report “Visibilizing the Invisible: Advances, Challenges, and Recommendations to Guarantee the Legal Identity, Nationality, and Name of Children on the Move in the Americas” by Álvaro Botero, Juan Ignacio Mondelli, and Laura Vanessa Mora.

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We invite participants to submit their questions through the Q&A feature on Zoom OR by sending an email to education@thedialogue.org.

OPENING REMARKS

ÁLVARO BOTERO 

Senior Fellow, Inter-American Dialogue (@AlvaroBotero8)

ARIEL FISZBEIN

Director, Education Program, Inter-American Dialogue

PANELISTS

TOMÁS PASCUAL

Director of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile

KENDRA GREGSON

Child Protection Advisor, UNICEF 

JORGE L. WHEATLEY

President, CLARCIEV

JOSÉ LUIS CABALLERO

Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (@JoseLCaballero)

WATCH THE RECORDING HERE (in Spanish):