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Co-Chairs Ask Obama to Meet with Parents of Abducted Children

December 8, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. Frank R. Wolf and James P. McGovern, Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and four other Members of Congress released a letter to President Barack Obama requesting that he meet with left-behind parents whose children are victims of international parental child abduction.

The letter followed upon the December 2 Commission hearing on international parental abduction. The parents with whom the President is urged to meet include three fathers who testified at the hearing.

A copy of the signed letter is available here.

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