United Nations
1: Japan finally signs Hague convention governing international child custody disputes | January 25, 2014
After years of refusing to sign, Japan on Jan. 24 officially joined the Hague convention that governs cross-border child custody disputes that result from broken marriages…
2: Parents of disabled want more flexibility to hysterectomy ban | March 27, 2013
Parents of women with severe disabilities are being forced to take their daughters overseas for hysterectomies after their requests for the procedure were denied in Australia, a leading endocrinologist has told an inquiry into involuntary sterilisation…