Caribbean Meeting on International Child Protection – Implementing and Operating the Hague Child Protection Conventions
On 18 and 19 October 2018, the “Caribbean Meeting on International Child Protection – Implementing and Operating the Hague Child Protection Conventions”, was held in Kingston, Jamaica. The meeting was co-organised by the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) and the Child Protection & Family Services...
2nd Inter-American Meeting of Central Authorities and International Hague Network Judges on International Child Abduction
From 29 until 31 March 2017, 62 Hague Network Judges and Central Authority officials, representing 27 jurisdictions met in Panama City to discuss how to improve the operation of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the 1980 Child Abduction Convention). The following jurisdictions were represented at the meeting: Anguilla, Argentina,...
Official Opening of the new Premises of the Regional Office for Latin America
Buenos Aires, 25 November 2015 - Today, Ambassador Horacio Basabe, together with Dr Christophe Bernasconi, Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) and Mr Ignacio Goicoechea, the HCCH's Representative for Latin America, officially opened the new offices of the Regional Office for Latin America. "While the Regional Office for Latin America...
Host Country Agreement with Argentina for Regional Office in Latin America enters into force
The Hague Conference is pleased to announce that the Embassy of the Argentine Republic formally notified the Secretary General that the Host Country Agreement regarding the establishment of the Organisation's Regional Office for Latin America in Buenos Aires became effective on 23 August 2013, immediately upon entry of the notification of the approval. In response to requests to expand...
Co-operation with and presence in Latin America
In the context of implementing the strategic aim of the Hague Conference of reinforcing its co-operation with, and its presence in, Latin America, the Secretary General, on 7 May 2010, signed two agreements in Buenos Aires. The first agreement concerns co-operation with Mercosur and was co-signed by the Ministers of Justice of the Members of Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay...