An ex-army doctor has shared a child safety plan for parents to follow if children get separated in a crowded public place. The advice incl...

The Supreme Court clarified its order on FIRs for missing persons. This directive now applies to every individual, irrespective of age or g...

Pakistan saw 1,914 child abuse cases in early 2026. Child sexual abuse was the most frequent crime reported by Sahil. Girls comprised fifty...

Delhi saw a 15.1% drop in overall registered crimes in 2024, with total cases falling to around 2.8 lakh. However, concerning trends persis...

East Hartford police canceled an Amber Alert for an 11-year-old girl who was found safe in Hartford. The child's father, subject to a feder...

The Amber Alert issued for a 2-year-old boy from Becker has been canceled, as confirmed by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (B...

Amber Alert was issued after an 11-year-old girl went missing who was last seen in Stanford, Ontario. Later, the girl was found safe, but t...

International parental child abduction (IPCA) generally refers to the "wrongful removal" or "wrongful retention" to another country of a ch...

India is not a signatory to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Abduction Convention), n...

The Hague Convention provides for a mechanism to return a child internationally abducted by a parent from one member country to another.

Not being a signatory to Hague Convention means there are no set guidelines on international parental child abductions, leaving judges to a...

The Indian government has been working towards signing the Hague Convention for over a decade now, but because the process requires the ame...

With 94 reported cases, India is placed second after Mexico when it comes to children being forced to return to the country by a parent in ...

The 43-page report has suggested that the existing bill be rechristened the “Protection of Children (Inter-Country Removal, Retention) Bill...

In all the cases, the "abduction" is by their spouses, who fled to India after marital dispute and got court orders against them.

India is among the top 10 destinations of “parental abduction of children”. The number of such “abducted” American children in India was 95...

There are a large number of legal issues that concern a sizeable part of the global Indian community.