Japan lawmakers approve international child abduction treaty

[JURIST] The Japanese parliament [official website, in Japanese] approved a bill on Wednesday adopting the Hague convention on resolving cross-border abductions of children. Parliament unanimously passed [BBC report] the treaty in response to international pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers from broken international marriages can take children away from foreign fathers, leaving the fathers without any recourse for the children's return. Countries that are party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/05/japan-lawmakers-approve-international-child-abduction-treaty.php

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