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    Every year, the ISS provides its services to approximately 75'000 families around the world

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    Every year, the ISS provides its services to approximately 75'000 families around the world

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    Every year, the ISS provides its services to approximately 75'000 families around the world

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    Protecting Children and Uniting Families Across Borders for 92 years

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    Protecting Children and Uniting Families Across Borders for 92 years

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    Protecting Children and Uniting Families Across Borders for 92 years

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    Every year, the ISS provides its services to approximately 75'000 families around the world

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    Every year, the ISS provides its services to approximately 75'000 families around the world

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Adoption of a historic resolution at the ISS IC in Melbourne, Australia

ISS Members recently participated at the ISS International Council to discuss emerging social challenges affecting children and families on the move. The necessity to collaborate as a network and further develop and expand well targeted individualized services addressing the complex needs of migrant families and children was also discussed in detail.
One of the outcomes of the IC was the adoption of a historic resolution, deciding unanimously for the membership expansion by giving the opportunity to more organizations adhering to ISS working principles, to join as members and actively participate in policy and decision making. The Secretary General, closed the meeting by stating that "ISS has taken the right decision in terms of membership structure. ISS is now better equipped to serve more and more children and families on the move and to serve better".

The Hague Conference on Private International Law - Read Quotes

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"The Hague Conference on Private International Law has a long history of working in the field of cross-border mediation in international child disputes.

The involvement in this area reflects the increasing importance of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods to bring about agreed solutions in international family law cases and most of the modern Hague Family Conventions explicitly encourage mediation and similar processes for finding appropriate solutions to cross-border family disputes.

The Hague Conference has been co-operating with ISS for many years on various matters related to the protection of children and strongly supports ISS in its goal to promote the use of mediation in international family disputes.

We are delighted to be a partner of ISS in this project which complements the efforts of the Hague Conference in this field in a unique way: the project targets international families which are often not aware that mediation may help them to find a solution to their conflict either aside from or instead of legal proceedings.

It thus responds to an urgent need to disseminate information on this conflict resolution mechanism world wide."

Dr. C. Bernasconi

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ISS Global Report 2015

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