{"id":28896,"date":"2018-10-24T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28896"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:13:08","slug":"india-not-ready-to-sign-the-hague-treaty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-not-ready-to-sign-the-hague-treaty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India not ready to sign the Hague treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-not-yet-ready-to-sign-the-hague-treaty-maneka\/article24106642.ece\">India not ready to sign the Hague treaty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hague treaty, inter-country abduction of children by parents<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India is not yet ready to sign the <strong>Hague treaty on the civil aspects of international child abduction.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There has been immense pressure from the U.S. on the government to sign the treaty.<\/li>\n<li>A committee constituted by the Centre to examine legal issues involved in international parental abduction submitted its report in April, opposing a central provision of the Hague Convention.<\/li>\n<li>India will follow Japan\u2019s example and put safeguards in place before acceding to the Hague treaty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Arguments against not singing treaty:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Indian government the criterion of habitual residence of the child, which is used to determine whether the child was wrongfully removed by a parent as well as to seek the return of the child to the country of habitual residence, was not in the best interest of the child.<\/li>\n<li>India has long held the view that the decision could lead to harassment of women escaping marital discord or domestic violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Suggestions:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting a <strong>Child Removal Disputes Resolution Authority<\/strong> to act as a nodal body to decide on the custody of the child as well as a model law to deal with such disputes.<\/li>\n<li>The government is contemplating assigning <strong>the National Commission for Protection of Children<\/strong> the responsibility to adjudicate on such cases along with a judicial expert.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Recent updates:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government in 2016 had decided that it will not sign the Hague treaty, later it appointed a panel under Rajesh bindal to prepare a report indicating that there was a some rethinking within the government on the matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India not ready to sign the Hague treaty Hague treaty, inter-country abduction of children by parents News: India is not yet ready to sign the Hague treaty on the civil aspects of international child abduction. Important facts: There has been immense pressure from the U.S. on the government to sign the treaty. A committee constituted&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-not-ready-to-sign-the-hague-treaty-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India not ready to sign the Hague treaty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704775669},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}