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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

Latest News

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".

A Guide to International Famly Mediation

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Based on ISS experience and input from international experts, the practical guide, very visual and easy to use, discusses all issues related to recourse to international family mediation in seven chapters.

It advises families caught up in a cross-border dispute how to move forward and how they can take benefit from mediation.

This Guide is intended for families all over the world – regardless of their origin, religion and composition – that are experiencing conflict with cross-border elements.
It emphasises that the interests of the children are at the core of international family mediation and depicts the emotional impact of parental disputes and child abductions on children to draw the parents' attention to some risks that are often underestimated.

It recommends international family mediation not as a miracle solution to all the problems that families face during separation across national borders, but as a simple, pragmatic and professional avenue of conflict resolution that ensures individual rights and complements any legal proceedings to settle the disputes.

 

To download the ISS Guide to International Family Mediation click here.


It is also available in French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, German, Bulgarian and soon in Portuguese.

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ISS Global Report 2015

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