Tag: best interest of child
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Exclusive: Chilean mother speaks for the first time in hiding since UN epic decision has had no effect [series]
July 18, 2024. A UN decision to protect a Chilean-Spanish boy with autism from being ‘hagued’ has been silenced for two years in Chile and beyond.
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This is how the 1980 Hague Convention fails the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [series]
July 18, 2024. The treaty on international child abduction rules 103 countries and is in the midst of an expansion campaign throughout Africa…
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Counterproductive protection: a story about survival under the Hague Convention
June 29, 2024. The terror that this Uruguayan mother experienced in Spain at the hands of her daughter’s father did not lessen with the protective orders she obtained. Au contraire.
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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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Mexico reckons domestic violence as a grave risk exception for Hague Convention
2023. The Supreme Court of Mexico established that the “grave risk” exception not only applies when the child is a direct victim of harm, but also as a witness to violence within the family.
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Abducting mothers or how the Hague Convention undermines child protection
2023. The 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction provides for the prompt return of a child taken from his or her country of origin by a parent regardless of context.
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Forced to stay in same country as abuser or risk persecution under Hague Convention
2020. Women are being left with nowhere to turn because of an international ‘good law gone bad’ -the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction-, designed to protect mothers, but frequently used as a weapon against them.
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Chile violated the rights of a boy ordered to return to Spain under Hague Convention, the UN Child Rights Committee found
2022. The UN Child Rights Committee issued its landmark decision after considering a complaint filed by a Chilean mother who had left Spain with her son for his autism.
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Treaty created to stop child abductions could now be protecting abusers
2020. The 1980 Hague Convention n.º 28 was created to protect children from abductions, but abusers can use it to regain custody of the children and power over their victims. Almost 50 years later, there’s a noticeable shift in cases’ patterns.
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Irish Court rules a dual-citizenship girl to be returned to Ukraine despite the war
2023. The High Court has ruled that a young Ukrainian-Irish girl, brought to Ireland by her mother following the outbreak of the war against Russia, should be returned to her native country under the 1980 Hague Convention.