Inter-country abduction of kids: Panel to examine need for law

From The Asian Age, 22 March 2016

Inter-continental abduction of children by parents is now a contemporary legal issue which baffles and mesmerises different legal systems of nations, whose conflicting positions prevent the return of children to the country of their habitual residence.

Solace can be found only in countries which are signatories to The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, 1980. But what happens to those aggrieved parents whose countries are not a part of this global conglomerate of like-minded nations which honour each other’s laws. No global family law governs them.