For many women, leaving a partner to escape abuse isn’t the end of the story, writes Charlotte Proudman. It is the beginning of a new battle – not just against the perpetrators, but also outdated laws ...

She left the European country, taking the baby to Australia on the first flight she could get on. The father has now applied for the child's return under the Hague abduction convention.

2023 and last year for showing a pattern of noncompliance with the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention that requires a country to expeditiously return a child held by a parent to the child's country ...

The Hague Convention retains its validity for ... achieve the desired result in exceptional cases. In other countries, too, child abduction may be punishable under national law.

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction sought to address ... lost custody cases taking children to their country of origin, or to countries where courts were ...

By the time I met Lisa, the Hague Convention had ... open image in gallery The Convention had done its job and ‘solved’ the problem of a child abduction – that this had come at the cost ...

The Hague Convention is an international agreement between dozens of countries, including Australia, designed to swiftly respond to cases where a child has been taken by one of their parents to ...