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Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizen, Women and Youth

 

 

Documentation and reporting of the Hickman case study on international child abduction to Germany in 1995 and resulting boycott of access.

Documentation and reporting about legal policy initiatives against international child abduction to Germany and against boycott of access with children brought to Germany as well as against discrimination and disadvantaging of the foreign left-behind parents and grandparents.

Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend

The German Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizen, Women and Youth is competent and responsible for the general family policy guidelines of which the tenor is reflected within the family law policy. The German for Family, Senior Citizen, Women and Youth is competent and responsible for the preparation of family policy, gender policy and children policy subject matters which result in law initiatives and law amendments in respect to the socio-policy and legal policy intentions of the respective German federal government in co-operation with the German federal ministry of justice.

The German Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizen, Women and Youth with the German federal family minister is competent and responsible for German state report on the compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child to the competent children rights committee of the United Nations.

The German Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizen, Women and Youth can be asked by a commission of the German Federal Parliament to make report, when Petitions matter falls within the area of concern of the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizen, Women and Youth.

A Federal Ministry is a tool for the respective political party in the power centre of the Federal Government, to set out it's own political interests and goals. Every Federal Minister manages his/ her portfolio independently under his/ her own responsibility in accordance with Art. 65 of Basic Law, while the respective Federal Chancellor determines the political guidelines and assumes the responsibility therefore.

Demography policy, socio-policy and gender policy aims can be transported and implemented via the power channel of the federal ministry. The state leadership interferes in social contexts by steering attitudes in order to bring forward its political interests in respect of designing the present, safeguarding the future and managing human capital, which is composed of the basic layout of the available people, and in order to execute as much influence as possible in this power position on the status quo of the development of family policy and family law policy.

Date & Link File Number Title/Description & Links
       
09.10.2001 deutsch

Open letter to Renate Schmidt during the human rights street action in Wilhelmshaven together with the documentation. 

  • Fatherland without fathers - We crucify the father who has become unholy. A documentation of social horror.

02.11.2001 deutsch Written reply from Renate Schmidt.

15.07.2002  

The foreign left-behind parent Mr. Hickman is among the delegation of victims of German family law jurisdiction following the Berlin hunger strike, which are received by the German federal family minister Christine Bergmann (see media presence)


       
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