Tag: gender
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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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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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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.