Tag: justice
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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 counting in the midst of an expansion campaign throughout Africa. What’s going wrong?
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Protective mothers affected by the 1980 Hague Convention call for changes to the treaty [series]
July 18, 2024. Women’s groups affected by the gender-neutral application of the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction made their testimonies known to the treaty’s top officials at a forum held in South Africa.
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Counterproductive protection: A story about trying everything possible to avoid 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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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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Colombia: International child restitutions 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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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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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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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.