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State Department pressed for action on abduction cases

Posted in News and Opinion on May 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

State Department pressed for action on abduction cases

A New Jersey congressman says the U.S. government needs to get tougher in its efforts to recover abducted children living in other countries.

WASHINGTON – Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey continued to hammer the U.S. government Thursday over a string of international child abduction cases that remain unresolved, including several from his home state.

“The status quo is simply not adequate,” Smith said at a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on global human rights and international organizations, which he chairs.

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U.S. tells Japan to address child abductions but balks at sanctions

Posted in News and Opinion on May 11, 2013| 1 Comment »

U.S. tells Japan to address child abductions but balks at sanctions

AFP-JIJI (May 11, 2013)

WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department called Thursday for Japan to take action on child abductions but rejected lawmakers’ calls to pose the threat of sanctions to force action on one of the allies’ few open disputes.

Hundreds of non-Japanese parents, mostly men from the United States and elsewhere, have lost access to their children as their estranged partners whisked them away to Japan, where joint custody is never granted.

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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/11/national/u-s-tells-japan-to-address-child-abductions-but-balks-at-sanctions/#.UY6-k0ZTb48

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