Compliance Reports

Reports on Compliance with the Hague Abduction Convention

Each year, the Department of State's Office of Children's Issues is required under Public Law 105-277, Section 2803 to submit to Congress a report on compliance by treaty partner countries with the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Parental Child Abduction (Hague Abduction Convention).  

The report, which is called the "Compliance Report" by our office, includes a list of countries "not compliant" or "demonstrating patterns of noncompliance" with the Hague Abduction Convention.  It details longstanding unresolved Hague cases, and it explains the Department of State's efforts to expand and strengthen the Convention.  The 2009 Compliance Report also includes country-by-country case number statistics, including statistics for countries not party to the Hague Abduction Convention, and statistics on parental child abductions incoming to the United States.    

The following is an archive of the Compliance Reports submitted by the Office of Children's Issues to Congress:

2009 Compliance Report ( PDF) 2008 Compliance Report ( PDF) 2007 Compliance Report ( PDF) 2006 Compliance Report 2005 Compliance Report 2004 Compliance Report 2002-2003 Compliance Report   2001 Compliance Report 2000 Compliance Report 1999 Compliance Report

 

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