Clinton pledged her commitment to bring abducted U.S. children home, increase federal interagency collaboration, and push nonsignatory countries to ratify the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention: "One day is too long, years is just unthinkable. There’s really not much that I or any of our officials can say that will fill the anger and frustration, disappointment, the big hole in the center of your hearts ... . We believe that The Hague Convention is the best tool for deterring and resolving abductions ..."
- - from "Secretary Clinton pledges to improve U.S. response to international parental abduction"
-via Global Justice Initiative, which adds: "Less than half of the world’s sovereign states are currently U.S. treaty partners under the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention, and a number of partner countries are not complying with their treaty obligations. ... Both Secretary Clinton and President Obama have raised individual missing children’s cases at the highest levels during diplomatic visits abroad."
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