Oxford LibGuides: People on the move: laws & HR responses: Intercountry abduction, adoption, surrogacy

Conventions

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child
Article 11: Illicit Transfer and non-Return of Children , Article 21: Adoption, Art 35: Prevention of Abduction, Sale and Trafficking
Convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction
Free resource. 1343 UNTS 89; HCCH full text. 28th Convention October 1980 into force December 1983.
Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
Free resource 32 ILM 1139 (1993), HCCH full text of 33rd Convention May 1993 into force May 1995 + links to many related documents, such as the Explanatory Report, Special Commissions and related documents, full status report, a bibliography ...
Inter-American Convention on Conflict of Laws Concerning the Adoption of Minors
OASTS 62
Inter-American Convention on the International Return of Children
29 ILM 66 (1990); OASTS 70
HCCH Parentage and Surrogacy Project

HCCH Child Abduction Section
Free resource. Official website which provides information about the operation of the 1980 Convention and the work of the Hague Conference in monitoring its implementation and promoting international co-operation in the area of child abduction.
Incadat: HCCH's Child Abduction Database
Free resource.

Subject searches to use in SOLO

Kidnapping --
Domestic relations --
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980 October 25)

Hague Convention on International Child Abduction: An Analysis of the Applicable Law and Institutional framework of Fifty-one Jurisdictions and the European Union
Free resource. 2004 Report by USA Library of Congress Legal Research Unit
Child Abduction
OU members only. Entry by Peter McEleavy in MPEPIL

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Intercountry adoption - law & legislation; Adoption - law & legislation; Conflict of laws - adoption; Surrogate Mothers - legal status

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