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MARRIAGE
This category leads to sources telling who and when people can marry and under what circumstances marriages will be recognized in foreign countries and international matters.
SECONDARY RESEARCH
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Transnational_Comparative_Family_Law1.htm -- research guide with a comparison of civil and common law systems’ marriage laws plus links to religious sources and national laws.
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
http://www.iglhrc.org
Human Rights Watch – Women’s Status in the Family
http://tinyurl.com/28w2e67
LIBRARY CALL NUMBERS:
K 670-675
Sample books:
Conjugal Rights: Marriage & Marriage-like Relationships Before the Law K670 .B76 2007
Family Law Sex & Society: A Comparative Study of Family Law K670 .D3 2010
LAWS
International Marriage Broker Regulation Act
8 USC §1375a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/MinimumAgeForMarriage.aspx
Recommendation on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/RecommendationOnConsentToMarriage.aspx
Hague Convention on the Celebration and Recognition of the Validity of Marriages
http://hcch.e-vision.nl/upload/conventions/txt26en.pdf
Convention on the Nationality of Married Women
http://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1958/08/19580811%2001-34%20AM/Ch_XVI_2p.pdf
DIVORCE
FOREIGN LAW
Look for a country’s Civil Code or Family Code using Lexadin http://lexadin.nl and Worldlii http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/215.html
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Hague Convention on the Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations
http://hcch.e-vision.nl/index_en.php?act=conventions.text&cid=80
CHILDREN
State Dep’t. child abduction resources
http://travel.state.gov/abduction/resources/resources_3860.html
Hague resources on child support & protection
http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=text.display&tid=10#family
PUBLIC POLICY SOURCES
Policy File http://www.policyfile.com/home.do
Polling the Nations http://poll.orspub.com/
Women Watch: UN Resources on Gender Equality…
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
SCHOLARLY SOURCES
Hague Academy Collected Courses http://www.nijhoffonline.nl/pages/recueil
Hein Online Foreign & International Law Journals
http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome
Articles in JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/
Articles, books, & chapters from Oxford University Press
http://www.oxfordjournals.org
GenderWatch: articles, NGO reports, conference proceedings, book chapters…
http://www.library.pitt.edu/genderwatch
ADOPTION
LAWS:
42 USC 14901 et seq. – adoption
8 USC 1433 - immigration
22 CFR parts 42.24 & 96-99 (State Dep’t)
8 CFR parts 103.7, 204, 213(a) (Homeland Security)
Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption
http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=text.display&tid=45
foreign codes http://www.lexadin.nl
LIBRARY CALL NUMBERS:
K 704 – international adoption law
KF 545 – U.S. adoption law including international
K 639 – children in international law
HV 875 – transnational adoption public policy
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE RESOURCES:
http://adoption.state.gov/
Includes the Hague Convention text, a guide for parents, a complaint registry, U.S. laws, summaries of foreign laws, statistics, and more.
U.N. COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/index.htm
For country reports, travaux preparatoires, states parties’ reports, etc… see
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher/CRC.html
or http://documents.un.org/
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
International Social Service
http://www.iss-ssi.org/2009/
Links & social services regarding child relocation.
Childwatch International Research Network
http://www.childwatch.uio.no/
Research on children’s rights and well-being.
Child Rights Information Network
http://www.crin.org
mechanisms, cases, publication leads…