Slam the Gavel welcomes Jeffery Morehouse on the podcast to discuss the non-compliance of Japan in regards to The Hague Convention as well as his own case. In addition to being an award-winning filmmaker, Jeffery Morehouse volunteers much of his time as Executive Director of Bring Abducted Children Home (www.bachome.org). According to U.S. Government figures more than 475 American children have been kidnapped by a parent to Japan since 1994.
Bring Abducted Children Home is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the immediate return of internationally abducted children being wrongfully detained in Japan. Italso strives to end Japan's human rights violation of denying children unfettered access to both parents. BAC Home works to increase public awareness through outreach on the crisis of international parental child abduction. He collaborates with an alliance of international partners working to end child abduction to and within in Japan.
He is also a founding partner in The Coalition to End International Parental Child Abduction (www.endchildabduction.org) uniting organizations to work to put an end to international parental kidnapping of children through advocacy/public policy reform. In July 2022, U.S. Senate Resolution 568, noted, “the Coalition to End International Parental Child Abduction, through dedicated advocacy and regular testimony, has highlighted the importance of this issue to Congress and called on successive administrations to take concerted action to stop international parental child abduction and repatriate kidnapped United States children.”
Between 2015-2021 he testified and briefed the U.S. Congress eight times. Most recently on September 29, 2021 in The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and December 10, 2018 in the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Japan’s systemic failure to return kidnapped children.
In October 2022 he briefed the United Nations Human Rights Committee on parental child abduction and loss of access within and to Japan. This resulted in the UN reporting Japan should, introduce necessary measures.
He has testified as an expert witness in the California and Florida family courts on prevention cases.
Information about his son’s 2010 kidnapping to Japan and efforts to locate him and reunite are at: www.bringmochihome.wordpress.com and www.bachome.org/mochi-morehouse/
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