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Documenting Citizenship & Other Forms of Legal Identity: A Community-Based Practitioner's Guide
This guide from Open Society Foundations and Namati in cooperation with UNHCR provides a practical, step-by-step foundation for community-based paralegals and other practitioners who are working around the globe to combat statelessness and a lack of legal identity documentation.
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Digital ID: Why It Matters, and What We're Doing About It
The social change-makers at The Engine Room make a compelling case for broadening the digital ID debate – and explore how it has a very real impact on our lives.
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“Without an ID, you don’t exist:” Gender and Identity on International Women’s Day
Savita Bailur - Research Director at Caribou Digital and Visiting Fellow and External Lecturer at London School of Economics - outlines key findings from Caribou Digital’s research about the relationship between ID and gender.
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Indian Government Allows Expanded Private Sector Use of Aadhaar Through Ordinance
In this article, Mozilla raises concerns that a new government ordinance accelerating private sector use of Aadhaar, issued without parliamentary approval, will undermine the protections that the Indian Supreme Court put in place.
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Exclusion and Identity: Life Without ID
Using the case of Chile, Privacy International explores how ID and identification can lead to exclusion and questions if "universal" ID systems can ever cover and serve all citizens fairly.
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Twenty-Nine Years Without an Identity
The legal advocay group Namati tells the story of Mahmoud, a father of four who was denied his right to ID for 29 years due to discrimination within the Kenyan Government system.
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Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than You Think
In this opinion piece in Wired, the Executive Director of Access Now and RightsCon says we must advocate for the minimisation of centralised personal data to uphold our fundamental rights.
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No Government Should Get to Decide This
A short film from Open Society Foundations illustrating the impact of ID that fails to reflect the true identities of transgender people.
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Good Digital Identity Principles for Africa
Magdi Amin – an investment partner with Omidyar Network’s Digital Identity initiative – writes in iAfrikan about the opportunity digital identity offers Africa and the importance of making all ID “Good ID.”
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Exploring the Gender Gap in Identification
With women and girls disproportionately excluded by official identification systems, GSMA explores the unique policy-related challenges female citizens face when accessing or using ID.
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