The Hague Conference on Private InternationalLaw, through its Asia Pacific Regional Office hosted the event to be known as“Towards the Well- Being of the Child Through the Hague Child Abduction and Protectionof Children Conventions: An Asia Pacific Symposium”. The event took place onThursday 25 and Friday 26 June 2015 at the Macau Science Centre, Macau SAR,China.

Attorney Zhao Ningning was invited to speak atthe Symposium.

The event was being jointly sponsored by the LawReform and International Law Bureau of the Macau SAR, the Department of Justiceof the Hong Kong SAR, and the Hague Conference.

The Symposium focused on the complementaritybetween the 1980 Hague Child Abduction and 1996 Hague Protection of ChildrenConvention. It additionally provided a forum for Central Authority delegates,Family Court judges, professors, and legal practitioners from Asia-Pacificcountries to share experiences and exchange views on the implementation of the1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention and (where applicable) the 1996Protection of Children Convention in their jurisdictions.