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Children Protected by the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
Children Protected by the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction A fundamental purpose of the Hague Convention is to protect children from wrongful international removals or retentions by persons bent on obtaining their physical and/or legal custody. Children who are wrongfully moved from country to country are deprived of the stable…
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Hague International Child Abduction Convention Analysis
Hague International Child Abduction Convention: Legal Analysis Introduction The Convention was adopted on October 24, 1980 at the Fourteenth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in Plenary Session by unanimous vote of twenty-three member states of that organization. The Convention was opened for signature on October 25, 1980, at which time it…
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Hague International Child Abduction Convention Analysis
Hague International Child Abduction Convention: Legal Analysis Introduction The Convention was adopted on October 24, 1980 at the Fourteenth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in Plenary Session by unanimous vote of twenty-three member states of that organization. The Convention was opened for signature on October 25, 1980, at which time it…
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Rights of Indigenous Peoples
This section provides an overview of rights of indigenous peoples within the legal context of International Economic Law and Human Rights in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges). U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples In relation to the international law practice […]
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Rights of Indigenous Peoples
This section provides an overview of rights of indigenous peoples within the legal context of International Economic Law and Human Rights in international economic law (Cross-Cutting Challenges). U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples In relation to the international law practice […]
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Access Rights
Access Rights Under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Remedies for Breach “Access rights,” which are synonymous with “visitation rights”, are also protected by the Convention, but to a lesser extent than custody rights. While the Convention preamble and Article 1(b) articulate the Convention objective of ensuring that rights of…
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History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century
History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century Women’s in the 20th-Century Developments Socialists Movements and Communism Governments After wars and revolutions in Russia (1917) and China (1949), new Communist governments discouraged the patriarchal family system and supported sexual equality, including birth control. In the Soviet Union, however, the majority of working women held low-paid…
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Hague Conventions
Definition of Hague ConventionsIn accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Hague Conventions : The Hague Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes: a series of international conventions on the laws of war (3 in 1899 and 13 in 1907). The 1899 […]
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History of Women’s Rights
History of Women’s Rights until the 20th Century Traditional Status Some scholars argue that the discovery throughout the European continent and the Near East of thousands of stone figures of female goddesses dating from the Paleolithic period and on indicates that early societies were originally goddess-worshiping, matrifocal civilizations. Male dominance, however, was preeminent from the…
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Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988
Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…
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Constitutional Text: Austria 1945, Amendments 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993
Constitutional Text: Amendments of 1986,1987,1988,1990, 1992 and 1993 to the Austria Constitution of 1945 1986 AMENDMENT TO AUSTRIA’S CONSTITUTION OF 1945 APRIL 24, 1986 212. Federal constitutional law of April 4, 1986, amending the federal constitutional law of 1929 (amendment to the federal constitutional law 1986) The National Assembly has decided: Article I. The federal…
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Refugees Part 16
Refugees Part 16 239 Trends in Refugee Status Determination January-September 2002: Applications, Refugee Status Determination and Pending Cases in 84 Asylum Countries. 26 December 2002, Population Data Unit, Population and Geographic Data Section, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , Geneva International Journal of Refugee Law Volume 14, Number 4, October 2002 p.617-631 LAW…