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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I - The Hague Conference International Centre for Judicial Studies and Technical Assistance

Jennifer Degeling, Marion Ely and Laura Martinez-Mora - Overview of the activities of the Hague Conference International Centre for Judicial Studies and Technical Assistance

II - The 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption

Julie Furuta-Toy, Director - The United States' implementation of the Hague Adoption Convention

Catherine McGuinness and Richard McNamara - Intercountry Adoption and the Law Reform Commission of Ireland - Attorney General v. Dowse

Alexandre Boiché - Decisions of the French Cour de Cassation involving Kafala in recent cases of intercountry adoption

Jennifer Degeling and Laura Martinez-Mora - The Hague technical assistance with Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala

Jennifer Degeling - The Intercountry Adoption Guide to Good Practice on Implementation of the 1993 Hague Convention

III - Judicial Communications

Dionisio Núñez Verdín - The Importance of Judicial Communications in the Implementation of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Graciela Tagle de Ferreyra - Direct Judicial Communications, Real-life experiences

List of Judges members of the International Hague Network of Judges under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

IV - Judicial Initiatives

Robyn Moglove Diamond, Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench (Family Division) - Canadian judicial initiatives respecting the handling of Hague Abduction Convention cases

V - Regional developments: Africa

Saliou Aboudou - The Challenge of International Child Protection

Ivana Radic - Judicial Seminar for French-speaking African countries on the principal Hague Conventions on international child protection, international judicial and administrative co-operation and international litigation

Conclusions and recommendations of the Judicial Seminar for French-speaking African countries on the principal Hague Conventions on international child protection, international judicial and administrative co-operation and international litigation

VI - The 2007 Hague Convention on the International recovery of Child Support and other Forms of Family Maintenance

The Permanent Bureau - Follow up of the Convention making process

Shireen Fisher - Judicial Communication taken to the next level

VII - International Child Protection Conferences and Seminars

Reports on recent judicial conferences and seminars

Forthcoming events

VIII - Hague Conference Update

IX - Personal Notes

Convenções (incl. Protocolos e Princípios)