But getting more countries to sign up to The Hague Convention would probably help.
ECONOMIST: International adoptions are not always for the best
We are soon to be the only international power not to have ratified the 1954 Hague Convention.
They may charge only expenses and a reasonable fee, according to The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption.
But for one category of parents those living in Japan without access to their children the Hague convention changes nothing.
The Hague Convention on Inter Country Adoptions is intended to regulate international adoptions.
ECONOMIST: International adoptions are not always for the best
The Hague Convention is the principal international instrument concerning the protection of cultural property during armed conflict and military occupation.
"There is no contradiction here because we are mandated to represent the EU in the Hague Convention negotiations, " he said.
Vitorino denied there is a contradiction between this European approach and the global one being debated in the Hague Convention.
Mali is also bound by the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
In 1954, it adopted the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (known as The Hague Convention).
The Hague Convention also aims to protect consumers in online transactions.
The UK is arguably the most significant military power (and the only one with extensive military involvements abroad) not to have ratified the 1954 Hague Convention.
He stressed that the Brussels I regulation goes much further than the Hague Convention, in that it applies to all cross-border disputes, not just online cases.
In 2010, the ambassadors of 12 countries, including the US, UK, Australia and Germany, signed a joint statement urging Japan to adopt the 1980 Hague Convention.
The main international treaty which governs archaeology in occupied territories is the Hague Convention of 1954, which deals by-and-large with the preservation of culturally significant sites.
The regulation pre-empts the signing of a global charter on the question of jurisdiction in cross-border online disputes, under discussion at a forum called the Hague Convention.
The provisions of the Hague Convention could prove more popular.
The destruction of cultural property during the conflicts of the late1980s and early 1990s hlighted the need for a number of improvements in the implementation of the Hague Convention.
The UK government is an active supporter of the international protection of important heritage sites, recently announcing the creation of a cultural protection fund and its intention to ratify the Hague Convention.
Cuba does not have an extradition treaty with the US and is not a signatory to the international treaty, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
The signatories further raise the pressing issue that the UK has not yet ratified the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols of 1954 and 1999.
The U.S. and Cuba share no extradition agreement and the island nation is also not a signatory of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty for governmental cooperation on such cases.
The UK urgently needs to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict to ensure the armed forces receive appropriate cultural property awareness training in preparation for any future deployments.
Mali has recently taken measures to accede to the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict 1999 which amongst others, penalizes the intentional destruction of cultural heritage.
The destruction of cultural property in the course of the conflicts that took place at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, highlighted the necessity for a number of improvements to be addressed in the implementation of the Hague Convention.
The lessons from the Iraq war and occupation clearly shows that the UK urgently needs to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict to ensure the armed forces receive appropriate cultural property awareness training in preparation for any future deployments.
Between 2001 and 2011 there was a 206% increase in the number of children taken to a country which had not ratified the Hague Convention on child abduction, an international agreement between certain countries which aims to ensure the return of a child who has been abducted by a parent.
Mali is to finalize its accession to the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict to enable it to submit requests for the granting of enhanced protection to cultural properties that are of the greatest importance to humanity.
Fifty-four years after the UK signed the text of the Hague Cultural Property Convention, it is time that we took the key step of ratifying it, as the United States finally did earlier this year.
Pakistan accuses India of using chemical weapons, but the body in The Hague that investigates compliance with the convention banning their use, which both countries have signed, has received no complaint yet from Pakistan.
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