Haiti signed the 1993 Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention on March 2, 2011, signalling “its wish and intention to reform its child protection system, as well as its intercountry adoption system, which is an essential starting point for ratification of the Convention.” The announcement from the Hague Conference is here.
Hague Conference News
- The Hague Conference on Private International Law has scheduled the Sixth Special Commission meeting to review the practical operation of the Child Abduction Convention and the Child Protection Convention in two parts. Part I will take place on June 1 to 11, 2011, and Part II is tentatively scheduled for January 2012.
- The Hague Conference has now grown to 72 members, with the recent addition of Costa Rica and Mauritius.
- At the end of 2010, eight European nations joined the Child Protection Convention, bringing the total number of Contracting States to 29, and Singapor
Premarital Sex and Abandoned Infants Concern for Malaysians
See this article by Liz Gooch in the N.Y. Times: Malaysia Struggles with Baby Abandonment.
Special Commission Scheduled: Child Abduction and Child Protection Conventions
The Hague Conference on Private International Law has tentatively scheduled meeting dates for the Sixth Special Commission to review the practical operation of the 1980 Child Abduction Convention and the 1996 Protection of Children Convention. Part 1 of the meeting will take place from June 1-10, 2011, in The Hague, and Part 2 will take place in January 2012. Although the Permanent Bureau has not announced an agenda, items that are likely to be addressed include a draft Guide to Good Practice on mediation, draft Principles on Direct Judicial Communications, a draft Practical Handbook on
United States Signs the Child Protection Convention
On October 22, the U.S. Ambassador to The Hague signed the 1996 Hague Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. Here’s an announcement of the signing from the U.S.
Marriage and Divorce in Tunisia
In this analysis of Marriage and Divorce in Tunisia – Women’s Rights, posted on the web site of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Massan d’Almeida discusses the Personal Status Code enacted in Tunisia in 1956, and notes two guidebooks on marriage and divorce published in Arabic and French by the Tunisian Women’s Association for Research and Development (Associa
U.S. Suspends Some Adoptions from Nepal
After issuing warnings earlier this year, the U.S.
France Recognizes U.S. Same-Sex Adoption
In a post on conflictoflaws.net, Gilles Cuniberti describes the recent ruling of the French Cour de cassation requiring recognition of an American adoption judgment that was obtained in 1999 by a French woman who was the same-sex partner of the child’s American mother. The couple were both doctors, living in Georgia at the time of the adoption. The post includes links to the court’s opinion and an article about the case in Le Monde.
More on Russian Adoptions in the U.S.
Here’s coverage from Time magazine: When the Adopted Can’t Adapt by Kate Pickert.
State Department Issues 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report
Last week, the State Department issued its tenth annual Trafficking in Persons Report under the Trafficking Victim Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA).