An unfinished trilogy: minors, gender violence and international child abduction

Abstract

Although the number of victims of gender–based violence and international abductions appears to have increased, the denial of returns of abducted children is not moving in the same direction. The cause lies in a problem that is difficult to solve: what should we do with orders for the immediate return of children when the abductor is a victim of gender–based violence and the abduction has been a desperate way to protect the child? The proliferation of regulations and legal reforms, the lights and shadows of the application of the Law for the Integral Protection of Gender Violence, and the way of understanding and applying the Hague Convention of 1980 designed for a prototype that is no longer the most used, have contribute to generating chaos at a time when paradoxically children have become the focus of all attention.