Hearing of the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee - Securing Enforcement of the Goldman Act to Return Abducted American Children

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"International parental child abduction rips children from their homes and whisks them away to a foreign land, alienating them from the love of the American parent left behind. In 2014, Congress rejected the State Department's ineffective response of "quiet diplomacy' and adopted accountability and action in the Goldman Act, which requires an annual report on abductions and returns, as well as assessment of cooperation by destination countries. The State Department is now more than two months late delivering this report, two months of powerlessness for desperate parents and two months of judges making decisions without the information they need to prevent abduction. This hearing is intended to press the State Department to comply with the Goldman Act immediately and deliver this overdue report."

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