Author: patrícia álvares
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Getting ‘hagued’: how one international law enables intimate partner violence
February 28, 2024. In the last decade, an estimated 15,000 mothers across the globe have been accused of abducting their own children. They are usually expats trying to relocate back home, but their kid’s father wouldn’t let them.
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The 1980 Hague Convention, a contravention of human rights?
October 14, 2023. Mary had to leave, and not only did Mary. Over half the world, year after year, around 2,000 expat women are accused of kidnapping their own children. They account for 75% of international child abductions. Why?
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Rapporteur of the 1980 Hague Convention proposes “reinterpreting” the treaty to take GBV into account
February 10, 2024. Nearly half a century later, the treaty’s rapporteur on international child abduction, Elisa Pérez-Vera, spoke about its need to recognise domestic violence.