Hague Convention

The United States said Wednesday it was quitting an international accord related to the top UN court after the Palestinians challenged the US move of its Israel embassy to Jerusalem.

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.

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...

As India and US get ready to meet later this month for their annual consular dialogue, one of the key issues on the table will be how to protect children kidnapped by their own parents, US officials said today.

The Centre is deliberating on proposing a caveat to the Hague convention dealing with international child custody issues to secure the rights of non-resident Indian women.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has put on hold the execution of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who had been sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan. Pakistan, the court said, must ensure that he is not executed till the court delivers its final verdict. The court said under the Article 36 of the Vienna Convention, Mr...

The ICJ or International Court of Justice at the Hague gave its verdict today, ruling in favour of India in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The top UN court told Pakistan to take all possible measures to ensure that Mr Jadhav is not executed before the international court gives its final verdict. It also told Pakistan to give consular access to India. ...

Reacting guardedly to India's statement on the strategic South China Sea verdict by a UN-backed tribunal, China today said it too wants to resolve the dispute by "fully complying" with the international law.

Pakistan today backed its "all-weather" ally China after a UN-backed tribunal struck down Beijing's claims of "historical rights" in the South China Sea, saying Islamabad opposes any imposition of "unilateral will" on others.

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.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was thrust into the spotlight when it was required to oversee the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, but it has been working since the 1990s as the body that implements the Chemical Weapons Convention, the first international treaty to outlaw an entire class of weapons.

The United States said Wednesday it was quitting an international accord related to the top UN court after the Palestinians challenged the US move of its Israel embassy to Jerusalem.

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.

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...

As India and US get ready to meet later this month for their annual consular dialogue, one of the key issues on the table will be how to protect children kidnapped by their own parents, US officials said today.

The Centre is deliberating on proposing a caveat to the Hague convention dealing with international child custody issues to secure the rights of non-resident Indian women.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has put on hold the execution of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who had been sentenced to death by a military court in Pakistan. Pakistan, the court said, must ensure that he is not executed till the court delivers its final verdict. The court said under the Article 36 of the Vienna Convention, Mr...

The ICJ or International Court of Justice at the Hague gave its verdict today, ruling in favour of India in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The top UN court told Pakistan to take all possible measures to ensure that Mr Jadhav is not executed before the international court gives its final verdict. It also told Pakistan to give consular access to India. ...

Reacting guardedly to India's statement on the strategic South China Sea verdict by a UN-backed tribunal, China today said it too wants to resolve the dispute by "fully complying" with the international law.

Pakistan today backed its "all-weather" ally China after a UN-backed tribunal struck down Beijing's claims of "historical rights" in the South China Sea, saying Islamabad opposes any imposition of "unilateral will" on others.

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.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was thrust into the spotlight when it was required to oversee the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, but it has been working since the 1990s as the body that implements the Chemical Weapons Convention, the first international treaty to outlaw an entire class of weapons.