Entries by Mayela Celis

It is possible! Another milestone for the Hague Conference: the Intercountry Adoption Convention has 101 Contracting Parties

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Another HCCH Convention has recently reached the number of 100 Contracting Parties. In February and March 2019, two States joined the HCCH Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Intercountry Adoption Convention): Guyana (by accession) and Honduras (by ratification). The Intercountry Adoption Convention will enter into […]

Another milestone: the Child Protection Convention has 51 Contracting Parties

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In February 2019, two States acceded to the HCCH Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children (Child Protection Convention): Guyana and Nicaragua. Thus, the Convention has reached the milestone of more than 50 Contracting Parties. The status […]

Is there a need for international conventions on legal parentage (incl. international surrogacy arrangements)?

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The Experts’ Group on Parentage / Surrogacy of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) has answered in the affirmative. At its fifth meeting earlier this year, the Experts’ Group agreed that it would be feasible to develop both: a general private international law instrument on the recognition of foreign judicial decisions on legal […]