Links to child abduction related websites

Central Authorities designated under the 1980 Child Abduction Convention
Autorités centrales désignées selon la Convention-Enlèvement d'enfants de 1980

ARGENTINA / ARGENTINE:

• Ministry of Foreign Relations, Legal Affairs Department: www.menores.gov.ar

AUSTRALIA / AUSTRALIE:

• Attorney-General's Department, International Family Law Section, Family Law & Legal Assistance Division: www.ag.gov.au/childabduction

AUSTRIA / AUTRICHE:

• Bundesministerium für Justiz (Ministry of Justice): www.bmj.gv.at

BAHAMAS:

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs: http://www.mfabahamas.org

BELARUS / BÉLARUS:

• Ministry of Justice: http://ncpi.gov.by/minjust  / http://www.minjust.by

BELGIUM / BELGIQUE:

• Service Public Fédéral Justice, Direction générale de la Législation civile et des Cultes, Service Entraide judiciaire internationale en matière civile: www.just.fgov.be

BELIZE:

• Ministry of Human Development, Women and Children and Civil Society: www.belize.gov.bz/cabinet/d_balderamos_garcia/welcome.shtml

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA / BOSNIE-HERZÉGOVINE:

• Ministry of Justice

BRAZIL / BRÉSIL:

• Secretaria de Estado dos Direitos Humanos (Secretariat of State on Human Rights): www.presidencia.gov.br/sedh
• www.mj.gov.br/sedh/acaf

BULGARIA / BULGARIE:

• The general government page is: www.government.bg
• Ministry of Justice
• State Agency for Child Protection

BURKINA FASO:

• The general government page is: www.primature.gov.bf
• http://www.action-sociale.gov.bf

CANADA:

• Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada as represented by: Justice Legal Services (JUS), Department of Foreign Affairs: www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca
• Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade: International Child Abductions: A Manual for Parents: www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/travel/consular/child_abductions-e.htm
• Department of Justice Canada, Family, Children and Youth Section: Inventory of Government-based Family Justice Services in Canada (including information about mediation, legal aid, parent education and other services for families):  http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/pad/resources/fjis/browse.asp?setlang=en
• Ministère de la Justice du Québec: http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/francais/programmes/eie/eie.htm
• Ministry of Justice of Quebec:  http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/programmes/eie/eie-a.htm
• Department of Justice, Province of Manitoba: "Family Law in Manitoba, 2008" (public information booklet): www.gov.mb.ca/justice/family/law/index.html
• Ministère de la Justice du Manitoba: "Le droit de la famille au Manitoba, 2008" (brochure d'information publique): www.gov.mb.ca/justice/family/law/index.fr.html
• Ministry of Justice of Saskatchewan

CHILE / CHILI:

• La Corporación de Asistencia Judicial de la Región Metropolitana: www.cajmetro.cl/

CHINA, HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
CHINE, RÉGION ADMINISTRATIVE SPÉCIALE DE HONGKONG:

• Secretary for Justice of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, c/o Department of Justice: www.info.gov.hk/justice
• www.info.gov.hk/justice/childabduct/index.html / http://www.doj.gov.hk/childabduct/english/abduct_toc.html 

 

CHINA, MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
CHINE, RÉGION ADMINISTRATIVE SPÉCIALE DE MACAO:

• Instituto de Acção Social: www.ias.gov.mo/indexf.htm

   

COLOMBIA / COLOMBIE:

• Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar: www.bienestarfamiliar.gov.co

COSTA RICA:

• Patronato Nacional de la Infancia

CROATIA / CROATIE:

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare: www.vlada.hr/default.asp?ru=118&gl=200209230000007&sid=&jezik=1

CYPRUS / CHYPRE:

• Minister of Justice and Public Order: www.pio.gov.cy/

CZECH REPUBLIC / RÉPUBLIQUE TCHÈQUE:

• Urad pro mezinárodne právní ochranu detí (Office for International Legal Protection of Children): www.justice.cz

DENMARK / DANEMARK:

• Ministry of Family and Consumer Affairs, Department of Family Affairs: www.familiestyrelsen.dk
• Child abduction website: www.boernebortfoerelser.dk 

ECUADOR / EQUATEUR:

• Corte Nacional de Menores (National Court of Minors)
• Consejo Nacional de la Niñez y Adolescencia 

EL SALVADOR:

• Instituto de Protección al Menor y Procuraduría General de la República: www.mh.gob.sv

ESTONIA / ESTONIE:

• Ministry of Justice: www.just.ee/

FIJI / FIDJI:

• Department of Social Welfare of the Ministry of Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation

FINLAND / FINLANDE:

• Ministry of Justice, International Affairs: www.om.fi
• A booklet providing basic information to parents and intended as a guide to Finnish authorities in cases of international child abduction, has been prepared in co-operation between the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, and the Association for Abducted Children in December 2000: Booklet on International Child Abduction

FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
L'EX-RÉPUBLIQUE YOUGOSLAVE DE MACÉDOINE:

• Ministry of Labour and Social Policy: http://www.gov.mk/English/index.htm  / http://www.mtsp.gov.mk

FRANCE:

• Ministère de la Justice, Bureau de l'entraide civile et commerciale internationale, Direction des Affaires Civiles et du Sceau: www.justice.gouv.fr/indexmaj.htm
• Ministère de la Justice « Enlèvements internationaux d'enfants et droits de visite transfrontières » : www.enlevement-parental.justice.gouv.fr/

GEORGIA / GÉORGIE:

• Ministry of Justice, Department of Public International Law: http://www.justice.gov.ge/child%20abduction_eng.html

GERMANY / ALLEMAGNE:

• Bundesamt für Justiz (Federal Office of Justice): www.bundesjustizamt.de/sorgerecht
  www.bundesjustizamt.de/custody-conflicts  

GREECE / GRÈCE:

• Ministry of Justice, Directorate of Pardon Award and International Judicial Co-operation: www.ministryofjustice.gr/eu2003/indexENG.php  / www.ministryofjustice.gr

GUATEMALA:

• Procuraduría General de la Nación: www.guatemala.gob.gt

HONDURAS:

• Junta Nacional de Bienestar Social

HUNGARY / HONGRIE:

• Ministry of Justice, Department of Private International Law: www.im.hu

ICELAND / ISLANDE:

• Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs
• Icelandic translation of Child Abduction Convention / traduction en islandais de la Convention-Enlèvement d'enfants: www.althingi.is/altext/120/s/0806.html

IRELAND / IRLANDE:

• Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform: www.justice.ie

ISRAEL / ISRAËL:

• Ministry of Justice, International Department of the State Attorney's Office: www.justice.gov.il

ITALY / ITALIE:

• Ministero della Giustizia, Dipartimento per la Giustizia Minorile: www.giustizia.it / www.giustizia.it/minori/indice.htm

LATVIA / LETTONIE:

• Secretariat of Minister for Special Assignments for Children and Family Affairs: www.bm.gov.lv  / www.bm.gov.lv/lat/

LITHUANIA / LITHUANIE:

• Ministry of Social Security and Labour
  

LUXEMBOURG:

• Le Procureur Général d'Etat: www.gouvernement.lu

MALTA / MALTE:

• Department of Family Welfare: www.msp.gov.mt

MAURITIUS / MAURICE:

• Ministry of Women's Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare

MEXICO / MEXIQUE:

• Ministry of Foreign Relations: www.sre.gob.mx

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA / RÉPUBLIQUE DE MOLDOVA:

• Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Moldova: http://www.moldova.md/en/government/index.html

MONACO:

• Direction des Services Judiciaires: www.monaco.gouv.mc

NETHERLANDS / PAYS-BAS:

• Ministerie van Justitie, Directie Jeugd en Criminaliteitspreventie, Bureau Centrale Autoriteit: www.minjust.nl / www.justitie.nl

NEW ZEALAND / NOUVELLE-ZÉLANDE:

• Family Court of New Zealand: http://www.justice.govt.nz/family/children/hagueconvention.html

NICARAGUA: 

• Consejo Nacional de Atención y Protección Integral a la Niñez y la Adolescencia (CONAPINA)

NORWAY / NORVÈGE:

• Justisdepartementet (Ministry of Justice): http://odin.dep.no/jd
• Child Abduction website of the Ministries of Justice and the Police and Foreign Affairs: http://www.government.no/child-abduction

PANAMA:

• Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Direccion General de Asuntos Juridicos y Tratados: www.mire.gob.pa/

PARAGUAY:

• National Secretariat for Childhood and Adolescence: www.presidencia.gov.py

PERU / PÉROU:

• Ministerio de la Mujer y Desarrollo Social: http://www.mimdes.gob.pe/

POLAND / POLOGNE:

• Ministry of Justice

PORTUGAL:

• Instituto de Reinserção Social, Unidade de Convenções Internacionais: www.parlamento.pt / www.irsocial.mj.pt

ROMANIA / ROUMANIE:

• Ministère de la Justice, Direction des relations internationales: www.just.ro/

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS / SAINT-KITTS-ET-NEVIS:

• Attorney General's Chambers: www.stkittsnevis.net

SERBIA / SERBIE:

• Ministry of Human & Minority Rights

SLOVAKIA / SLOVAQUIE:

• Centrum pre medzinárodno-právnu ochranu detí a mládeze (Centre for International Legal Protection of Children and Youth): www.government.gov.sk / www.cipc.sk

SLOVENIA / SLOVÉNIE:

• Ministry of the Interior, Crime Investigation Directorate: www.mnz.si

SOUTH AFRICA / AFRIQUE DU SUD:

• The Chief Family Advocate: www.gov.za / www.doj.gov.za/hague/main.htm

SPAIN / ESPAGNE:

• Dirección General de Política Legislativa y Cooperación Jurídica Internacional, Ministerio de Justicia: www.mju.es

SRI LANKA:

• Ministry of Justice, Law Reform & National Integration: www.justiceministry.gov.lk/

SWEDEN / SUÈDE:

• Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Consular Affairs and Civil Law: www.regeringen.se/inenglish

SWITZERLAND / SUISSE:

• Office fédéral de la Justice, Service de la protection internationale des enfants: www.ofj.admin.ch

THAILAND / THAÏLANDE:

• Office of the Attorney General of the Kingdom of Thailand, International Affairs Department
  

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO / TRINITÉ ET TOBAGO:

• The Children's Authority of Trinidad and Tobago, c/o National Family Services Division Office of the Prime Minister (Social Services Delivery): www.gov.tt/  / www.socialservices.gov.tt

TURKEY / TURQUIE:

• Ministry of Justice - General Directorate of International Law and Foreign Relations

TURKMENISTAN / TURKMÉNISTAN:

• Turkmen National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan

UNITED KINGDOM / ROYAUME-UNI:

• For England and Wales / Pour l'Angleterre et le Pays de Galles: The Child Abduction Unit, Official Solicitor and Public Trustee: www.offsol.demon.co.uk
• Northern Ireland / Irlande du Nord: Northern Ireland Court Service: www.nio.gov.uk
• Scotland / Ecosse: Scottish Executive Justice Department, Civil Justice and International Division: www.scotcourts.gov.uk/courtsadmin/abduction.asp
• Isle of Man / Ile de Man: www.gov.im/government/offices/attorney.xml

UNITED STATES / ETATS-UNIS:

• US Department of State, Office of Children's Issues: International Parental Abduction: www.travel.state.gov/children's_issues.html
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC): www.ncmec.org
• International Division: http://desperado.blinncol.edu/cisc/1301/notes/html/missingchildren/intl-goal.html

URUGUAY:

• Dirección de Cooperación Jurídica Internacional y de Justicia del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura: www.mec.gub.uy

UZBEKISTAN / OUZBÉKISTAN:

• Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan: www.gov.uz / http://minjust.gov.uz

VENEZUELA:

• Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Torre Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores: www.mre.gov.ve

ZIMBABWE:

• Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parlimentary Affairs: www.gta.gov.zw/

Miscellaneous / Divers:

• France: www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/francais/FAMILLES/enlevements/index.asp
• Reunite: www.reunite.org
• HiltonHouse: www.hiltonhouse.com
• Interpol: www.interpol.int
• Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT): www.pact-online.org
• Council of Europe: www.coe.fr
• Family law and children's rights: www.legal.coe.int/family
• European Custody Convention (Luxembourg, 20 May 1980): www.coe.fr/eng/legaltxt/105e.htm
• International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ): www.iawj.org