Tag: domestic violence
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Mexico reckons domestic violence as a grave risk exception for Hague Convention
April 18, 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
May 30, 2023. The 1980 Hague Convention provides for the immediate 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 restitutions must be decided with gender lens, considering VAW, says Constitutional Court
Bogotá, 13 September 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
December 14, 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 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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No exception – how the Hague Convention fails women fleeing domestic violence
October 11, 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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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.