Tag: domestic violence
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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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Counterproductive protection: a story about survival behind 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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IN MEMORIAM: Following a Hague return order killed her
Cassandra Hasanovic was convinced she was going to die at the hands of her husband but her pleas for help in two continents fell on deaf ears. “She was devastated when under the Hague Convention she was ordered to return the boys to England,” her mother broke down.
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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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Colombia: International child returns must be decided with gender lens, considering VAW, says Constitutional Court
2023. Colombia’s highest court determined that “the 1980 Hague Convention cannot be reduced to a mere syllogistic in formal compliance to its provisions…”
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What Australia’s new law means for Hague Convention cases
2022. The convention became a way for men to maintain control and prevent women and children from fleeing domestic and child abuse. Is it an opportunity for Australia to establish itself as a global champion and a safe haven for mothers and the kids who have been victims?
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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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No exception – how the Hague Convention fails women fleeing domestic violence
2023. Each year, over 2,000 parents invoke the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction to force their children’s return to their “habitual residence”. But mothers are who mostly flee with their kids, many due to domestic violence.
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The struggle of migrant mothers escaping abuse: confronting the Hague Convention
January 31, 2024. In a tough situation, migrant moms fleeing domestic violence face international child abduction charges. Courageous stories address the challenges of abuse and a complex legal fight.
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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.