Returned for the child's protection
A treaty built to send abducted kids home now ships them back to the abusers they fled — and treats the mothers who escaped as the criminals.
Source article: UK to examine domestic abuse in Hague child-abduction cases.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- crime, human interest, government
- Primary entities
- UK Ministry of Justice, UK Home Office, Filia Hague Mothers campaign, Globalarrk, Right to Equality, Reunite, Liberal Democrats, 1980 Hague Convention
- Themes
- domestic abuse and coercive control, Hague Convention 1980, international child abduction, family law, legal aid and representation
- Floor values engaged
- human_life_and_dignity, Accountability of power, Equality & fairness