Parental Child Abduction

The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor, will approach the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that marriage with an underage girl is valid as per the Sharia law if she has had her first menstrual cycle.

A growing number of foreigners in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away the children and block the other from visiting them.

Union minister Maneka Gandhi said the option of signing the Hague Convention on inter-country abduction of children by parents was still open, and a mediation cell will be constituted to resolve such cases till a decision was taken on signing the convention.

The US today accused India of not adhering to any protocols on international parental child abduction, claiming that 90 per cent of requests for the return of abducted children remained "unresolved" for over a year.

There are currently 94 cases in India where a child from the US has been registered as kidnapped by one parent and brought to India after the marriage broke down.

India not signing the Hague Convention dealing with inter-parental child abduction is a "very serious" issue, the US president's nominee to be the next envoy to India, Kenneth Juster, has said. The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980), signed by 96 countries, provides for a mechanism to return a child internatio...

Every day children are missing from their homes for any number of reasons like a toddler at play wanders away, a teenager in turmoil runs away, a child is abducted by a noncustodial parent or even by someone unknown to him or her. The crisis of a missing child calls on every ounce of courage and determination that parents and other family members c...

At 5 am this morning, the parents of a five-year-old child kidnapped last week from Bihar were finally able to hold her in their arms. A ransom call had warned that would not be possible unless they paid 25 crores.

Around 60 Indian-Americans have asked the US government and the Congress to consider imposing sanctions on India, alleging that they have "not been able to get justice" from the Indian system in reuniting with their kids who have been "abducted" by their spouses there.

A 15-month-old boy, who was allegedly abducted from a residential locality in Bhayander in Thane was reunited a day after with his parents, on the eve of Bakra-Eid.

The parents of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, who was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married off to her abductor, will approach the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that marriage with an underage girl is valid as per the Sharia law if she has had her first menstrual cycle.

A growing number of foreigners in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away the children and block the other from visiting them.

Union minister Maneka Gandhi said the option of signing the Hague Convention on inter-country abduction of children by parents was still open, and a mediation cell will be constituted to resolve such cases till a decision was taken on signing the convention.

The US today accused India of not adhering to any protocols on international parental child abduction, claiming that 90 per cent of requests for the return of abducted children remained "unresolved" for over a year.

There are currently 94 cases in India where a child from the US has been registered as kidnapped by one parent and brought to India after the marriage broke down.

India not signing the Hague Convention dealing with inter-parental child abduction is a "very serious" issue, the US president's nominee to be the next envoy to India, Kenneth Juster, has said. The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980), signed by 96 countries, provides for a mechanism to return a child internatio...

Every day children are missing from their homes for any number of reasons like a toddler at play wanders away, a teenager in turmoil runs away, a child is abducted by a noncustodial parent or even by someone unknown to him or her. The crisis of a missing child calls on every ounce of courage and determination that parents and other family members c...

At 5 am this morning, the parents of a five-year-old child kidnapped last week from Bihar were finally able to hold her in their arms. A ransom call had warned that would not be possible unless they paid 25 crores.

Around 60 Indian-Americans have asked the US government and the Congress to consider imposing sanctions on India, alleging that they have "not been able to get justice" from the Indian system in reuniting with their kids who have been "abducted" by their spouses there.

A 15-month-old boy, who was allegedly abducted from a residential locality in Bhayander in Thane was reunited a day after with his parents, on the eve of Bakra-Eid.