A FILIA MVAWG PROJECT
About
The FiLiA Hague Mothers’ Campaign (FHM)
FHM is a global campaign which aims to end the injustices created by The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, specifically for mothers and children who are victims of domestic abuse.
We are women-led and women-centred; a voluntary group of lawyers, academics, domestic abuse professionals, child psychologists, human rights and children’s rights activists, trauma specialists, and Hague mothers, all working to support and safeguard victim-survivors. The international sisterhood in action!
(Please note: we are unable to offer legal advice.)
News & Views
Campaign News
Read the latest campaign updates and listen to the Hague Mothers episodes of the FiLiA Podcast.
Treebeard Funding
FHM receive funding from Treebeard Trust! We are absolutely delighted (an understatement) that Treebeard Trust will be funding a part-time administrator for the next year, and have also offered informal and ongoing advice to help us with our campaign. The Trust also fund organisations such as Rights of Women and the Centre for Women’s Justice […]
How a TV documentary announcement sparked social media uproar in Japan
Lisa Ogawa, co-founder Hague Mothers Japan has sent us this report about media accounts of ‘child abduction’ and the growing feminist solidarity which is challenging this one-sided narrative. Some three months ago, in May 2024, Japan’s Diet (parliament) passed a bill introducing joint parental authority. While few oppose voluntary joint parental authority, many feared the possibility of court-mandated […]
FiLiA
A FiLiA MVAWG Project
FiLiA is an UK-based woman-led volunteer organisation with international reach and part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Our vision is a world free from patriarchy where all women and girls are liberated. Our mission is to (1) Build sisterhood & solidarity (locally, nationally, globally) (2) Amplify the voices of women (particularly those less often heard or purposefully silenced) (3) Defend women’s human rights. Our volunteer team has organised a Feminist conference since 2013.
FUNDING
FHM receive funding from Treebeard Trust!
We are absolutely delighted (an understatement) that Treebeard Trust will be funding a part-time administrator for the next year, and have offered informal and ongoing advice to help us with our campaign. The Trust also fund organisations such as ‘Rights of Women‘ and the ‘Centre for Women’s Justice’ so we are in very good company indeed.
Having their generous support will significantly expand our scope and increase our efficacy. In particular, we have been asked to demonstrate progress against four areas of work:
- Increased awareness of the issue and injustices among those at risk and those who are in a position to make a difference
- HCCH and individual states acknowledge and take steps to ameliorate the problem
- Mothers fleeing abuse and facing Hague petitions (and the organisations supporting them) have access to up-to-date resources and support
- Growth in the evidence base related to this issue, both through survivor’s testimony and academic expertise.
Given the expertise and commitment available to us through our members and partners, we can certainly do that. Thank you, Treebeard for your faith in us.
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