The IUSSP Initiative on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights engages with these issues, and seeks now to address the impacts of population registers and legal identity systems in two areas, both with immense challenges and opportunities:
- sexual and reproductive health and rights, and
- the implications of the climate crisis for action.
We are infusing interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on expertise from law, history, economics, public policy, demography, and public health, in all aspects of this project, alongside work with early career fellows across multiple academic fields.
This project is now in its third phase. The current 2.5-year initiative runs from January 2025 to June 2027 and is led by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER, South Africa), and the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH, USA). It builds on the 2022-2025 project: Initiative on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights which, amongst many research and interdisciplinary dialogues and activities, hosted a residential fellowship program for three early-career researchers and practitioners.
Our current program of activities is organized across Research and Knowledge Creation, Events and Convenings, and Mentorship. Further details on each area are included below. These areas are representative of our strategic activities.
The Panel's activities are posted on the Project Website.
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This work is made possible due to generous support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.