“Try flying any plane with a baby if you want a sense of what it must have been like to be a leper in the fourteenth century, ...

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth ...

"This is not about digging up drama. It's about restoring dignity. Access to an original birth certificate isn't about ...

"Many people can go a long time without needing a birth certificate or other ID, but when an emergency happens, like needing ...

The lower court must reconsider its rulings related to Oklahoma's birth certificate gender policy and family planning funds.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender rights should “inform” the 10th Circuit's reconsideration of whether Oklahoma can ...

At least 250,000 people have waited up to seven years for Home Affairs to process their late birth registration applications. Without birth certificates, children face numerous complications in life ...

This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...

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Illinois State University just began offering a “Queer Studies” certificate – but a government watchdog group thinks that ...

A slate of new reforms come into effect from today, including new birth certificate laws and markers for trans and gender ...

The KNBS report shows that the number of birth certificates issued fell from 1,987,910 in 2022 to 1,349,949 in 2024, marking ...