Forced to return her children to an abusive father – Constanza’s story

It is too easy to believe that the Hague Convention on child abduction will never affect us, that it is some rarely-invoked and esoteric complexity of international law that will never apply to us or those we love. This is Constanza’s story but it could also be yours. It is already the reality for hundreds of Hague mother and their children around the world.