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Please find below more information about ICCACK and the work we do.

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Over the past decade, parental abduction has risen by 88%. This is where one parent violates court orders and kidnaps their child, fleeing to a different state or country, without the knowledge or consent of the "left behind" parent. Most cases, however, are not reported so this is, in fact, a mere fraction of the actual figures. 

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• The majority of child abductions are committed by family members. In the US alone, more than 200,000 children are abducted by family members each year, while only 115 reported child abductions were committed by strangers.

• Every 40 seconds in the United States, a child becomes missing or is abducted.

• When international child abduction occurs, and the child is taken to a country that has not signed the 1980 Hague Convention, it is virtually impossible to return the child home.

• Sadly enough, there are thousands of cases each year where judges violate international laws and treaties and decide to NOT return the wrongfully retained child to the “left behind” parent. This leads to ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE OF CHILDREN BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, which is a crime under the UN Convention.

• More than 70 per cent of the children involved reported suffering significant effects on their mental health.

 

 

ICCACK FOUNDING TREATIES

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​ICCACK's Founding Treaties, which guarantee due process and promote universal respect for the rule of law in the field of international child abductions, include, but are not limited to:

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a.) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

 

b.) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

 

c.) The European Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children.

 

d.) The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980 Hague Convention).

 

e.) The 1996 Hague Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement, and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility, and Measures for the Protection of Children (1996 Hague Convention).

 

f.) The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as amended by Protocols Nº 11 and Nº 14 (informally known as the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

 

g.) The European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights.

 

h.) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

 

i.) The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (UNCED).

 

j.) The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED).

 

k.) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

 

l.) The Kidnapped Hearts Statute and Convention of the ICCACK.  

 

Based as it is on the above Founding Treaties, the ICCACK has both international legal personality and the legal capacity for the exercise of its functions for the fulfilment of its purposes. The ICCACK, and its subsidiaries, may therefore exercise its authority and establish local impartial operational INGO tribunals, as provided in its Convention, on and within the territory of any Member State and/or Contracting Party to any of its Founding Treaties.

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ICCACK promotes transparency, accountability, and integrity in government and fidelity to the rule of law. As part of its mission, ICCACK regularly exposes family court judges who did not follow the rule of law by keeping wrongfully retained children unlawfully within their “jurisdiction”. At present, there are numerous violations against children's rights, due to lax enforcement of laws in regard to parental abduction.

 

Our request is that the UN would join us in the fight against child abuses, including parental child kidnapping and other criminal offenses. Would you be so kind to sign and ratify the attached Kidnapped Hearts Convention of 1st June 2019 on the CRIME OF PARENTAL CHILD KIDNAPPING, which is based on the UNCRC Convention.

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Your signature and ratification will change the world for these innocent children and show each UN Member State Party that you have joined the mission of the International Criminal Court Against Child Kidnapping, which is to PROTECT AND ENFORCE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE CHILD.

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ICCACK is looking forward to your full support and collaboration on these important issues. Imagine, somebody would do this to your children and a “lawless judge” in another country decides NOT to return your children based on the “weak” and “outdated” The Hague Convention, which only covers the “Civil” aspects of parental child kidnapping.

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How would you feel, knowing that you as the “left behind” parent will never see your children again, because a judge in a foreign land used The Hague Convention to declare your (illegal immigrant) child “well settled”. This abuse of law against innocent children and their “left behind” parents has to STOP!

 

PARENTAL CHILD KIDNAPPING IS NOT A VICTIMLESS CRIME AND IT EFFECTS OUR SOCIETY AT LARGE!

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Denunciation 

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1. A UNCRC Member State Party may not denounce the present Statute because the Member State has signed and ratified the UNCRC.

2. Any denunciation shall not have the effect of releasing the State Party concerned from its obligations under the UNCRC or this Statute in respect of any act which, being capable of constituting a violation of such obligations, may have been performed by it before the date at which the denunciation became effective.

 

Article 40

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Signature and ratification

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1. This Statute shall be open to the signature of the members of the United Nations, who signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

2. The present Statute shall come into force immediately regardless if any UNCRC Member State Party signs or ratifies this Statute.