...Department of State is hereby designated as the Central Authority of the United States for purposes of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and empowered, in accordance with such regulations as he may...

...return their children to the US, and to provide the Department's views on the potential effectiveness of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Department of State has a long standing commitment to the welfare of American citizen children abducted...

...OF THE FULL COMMITTEE. SENATOR BIDEN. FOR HOLDING THIS HEARING. THIS BILL WOULD IMPLEMENT THE 1980 HAGUE CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION. THE CONVENTION HAS BEEN RATIFIED BY THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, FRANCE, PORTUGAL, SWITZERLAND, HUNGARY, GREAT BRITAIN,...

...designated by the President', to be located?" Answer: In inter-agency consultations on US implementation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the State Department volunteered to assume the role of US Central Authority under the Convention. Within...

...abduction. Between 1976 and 1980, the United States was a major force in preparing and negotiating the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Convention came into force for the United States on July 1, 1988, and applies to abductions or wrongful retentions...

...their interests by avoiding dramatic disruption to their lives" 154. 153. See BR Morgenstern, "Comment, The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction : The Need for Ratification", 10 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation (1985),...

...procedures is limited, precisely because of their reduced impact on domestic systems. Starting with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the Hague Conference has embarked on the creation of a new type of Convention which combines aspects of...

...Federal and state criminal law; • Sweden's international legal obligations under several treaties (The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the European Convention on Human Rights, and other human rights instruments);...

...or failure often depends on whether the child was taken to one of the 45 countries that have signed the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The recovery rate for Hague Convention countries varies by how well the courts of each country implement...

...to state that publicly. As with several other treaties (eg, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, the ICCPR), Sweden confuses the photo opportunity of ratification with the daily requirement of implementation,...