Lawyers Collective and Advocate Suranya Aiyar have urged the Centre to not sign the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Convention, signed by 96 countries, provides for a mechanism to return a child internationally...abducted by a parent from one member country to another.
The NGO and Ms. Aiyar have pointed out several reasons for opposing the Convention in their submissions made to the Committee on the Convention as well. Calling the Convention a “draconian and insensitive law”, they have, thereafter, appealed for a n...for a negotiation of terms with foreign Governments that would “preserve and foster a child’s relationship with both its parents”.
Fleeing parent is not an “abductor” The submissions protest against the terminology used in the Convention, when labeling the removal of children from a country by their own parents as “abduction”. “We should not stigmatize parents coming to India.
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