Author: patrícia álvares
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Uruguay instructs judges to ignore GBV law in Hague Convention cases
June 29, 2024. Uruguayan Central Authority believes that admitting domestic violence as an exception for not returning a child to his or her previous country violates the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.
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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 contravention of human rights?
2023. Mary had to leave, and not only did Mary. In the past 10 years, at least 15,000 expat mothers have been accused of kidnapping their own children. Nowadays, there are 2,000 per year, 6 per day. ONE every 4 hours. They account for 75% of international child abductions. Why?
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Rapporteur of 1980 Hague Convention proposes “to reinterpret” the treaty and 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.
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