Author: patrícia álvares
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“Children are people, not things”: historic decision over a Hague case (Brazil x Colombia)
August 27, 2024. Against all odds, the Brazilian highest court revoked the return of three brothers to Colombia, as ordered by three courts before. Mother and lawyer spoke to the hague papers.
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Breaking news: Brazil declares domestic violence an exception to repatriation under the Hague Convention
August 23, 2024. It’s the fifth country to make it official and public after Uruguay, Australia, Mexico and Colombia, respectively.
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Uruguay instructs judges to ignore GBV law in Hague Convention cases
June 29, 2024. The Uruguayan Central Authority decided that admitting domestic violence as an exception to return a child to his or her previous country breaches the Hague Convention.
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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 worldwide have been accused of abducting their own children. They are foreigners trying to relocate back home, but their kids’ father wouldn’t let them.
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The 1980 Hague Convention, a human rights contravention?
2023. Maria had to leave, and not only did Maria. In the past 10 years, at least 15,000 expat mothers have been accused of kidnapping their own children. Nowadays, they are about 2,000 per year, 6 per day. One every 4 hours. That’s 75% of international child abductions.
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Exclusive: The 1980 Hague Convention’s rapporteur proposes “to reinterpret” 13b and take GBV into account
February 10, 2024. Nearly half a century later, an unprecedented interview with Elisa Pérez-Vera, official rapporteur on international child abduction.