Interior ministry defends decision to drop parents’ names from ID cards

The Interior Ministry defended its decision to leave parents’ names off new biometric identity cards, responding to several days of public debate over the change, the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

The ministry said the Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights first raised the issue in 2012, warning that a dash printed next to the father’s name field discriminated against, marginalised and stigmatised children of unknown fathers or children born to single mothers....