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Jeremy D. Morley
The Philippines is currently
determining whether to accede to the Hague Abduction Convention.
The Philippines’ Senate’s Foreign
Relations Committee has created a special Subcommittee on the Hague Convention
on International Child Abduction.
The Chair of the Subcommittee, Senator
Loren Legarda, has reported that her subcommittee supported the accession to
the treaty. She said that:
-"The Convention will provide
administrative and judicial avenue to parents and children affected by
international parental child abduction, or those parents who need help
preventing their children from being abducted from their country of habitual
residence."
-The benefit of acceding to the
Convention is undeniable especially for the millions of overseas Filipino
workers.
-"The country's accession to this
Convention will make a difference in resolving child custody disputes,
especially in helping the left-behind parent because in the current scenario,
there is almost nothing that can be done except to pursue a criminal case.”
In the last reporting period 29 cases
of international child abduction from the United States to the Philippines were
open in calendar year 2014 and only one case was closed during that period.
