{
 "meta": {
  "generated": "2026-07-06"
 },
 "sources": [
  {
   "id": "HCCH_STATUS",
   "title": "Status table — 1980 Child Abduction Convention (cid=24)",
   "publisher": "Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)",
   "url": "https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/status-table/?cid=24",
   "date": "2026-07-05",
   "tier": "E1",
   "type": "official",
   "supportsFields": [
    "hague_1980_status",
    "entry_into_force_date",
    "accession_or_ratification_type",
    "article_38_acceptance_required"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.9,
   "quote": "Official list of Contracting Parties, entry-into-force dates, and accession/ratification type."
  },
  {
   "id": "HCCH_19A",
   "title": "Prel. Doc. No 19A — Statistical study of applications made in 2021 (5th Global Study, updated Sept 2024)",
   "publisher": "HCCH (Prof. Nigel Lowe & Victoria Stephens)",
   "url": "https://assets.hcch.net/docs/a75d7234-deb9-4764-be72-a4a9d87c8af7.pdf",
   "date": "2024-09",
   "tier": "E1",
   "type": "official",
   "supportsFields": [
    "caseload",
    "transparency_survey_participation",
    "global_return_rate",
    "average_resolution_days",
    "outcome_distribution"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.95,
   "quote": "39% overall return rate (2021); 207-day average resolution; responses from 77 of 101 Contracting States (~95% of applications)."
  },
  {
   "id": "HCCH_CA",
   "title": "Central Authorities directory — 1980 Convention (cid=24)",
   "publisher": "HCCH",
   "url": "https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/authorities1/?cid=24",
   "date": "2026-07-05",
   "tier": "E1",
   "type": "official",
   "supportsFields": [
    "central_authority"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.9,
   "quote": "Designated Central Authority per Contracting Party."
  },
  {
   "id": "US_IPCA_2024",
   "title": "Annual Report on International Child Abduction 2025 (reporting on calendar year 2024)",
   "publisher": "U.S. Department of State, Office of Children's Issues",
   "url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/International-Parental-Child-Abduction/for-providers/legal-reports-and-data/reported-cases.html",
   "date": "2025",
   "tier": "E2",
   "type": "proxy",
   "supportsFields": [
    "cooperation",
    "speed_proxy",
    "us_related_case_counts"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.9,
   "quote": "Covers U.S.-related cases only. A pattern-of-noncompliance finding 'does not necessarily mean that the country is in violation of any Convention obligations.'"
  },
  {
   "id": "CONV_ART11",
   "title": "1980 Hague Convention, Article 11 (six-week decision aspiration)",
   "publisher": "HCCH",
   "url": "https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/full-text/?cid=24",
   "date": "1980",
   "tier": "E1",
   "type": "official",
   "supportsFields": [
    "speed_benchmark"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.95,
   "quote": "Judicial or administrative authorities shall act expeditiously; six weeks is the benchmark."
  },
  {
   "id": "BUDGET_DE_BFJ",
   "title": "Bundeshaushalt 2026, Einzelplan 07 (Kapitel 0718 — Bundesamt für Justiz) + BfJ 2025 statistics press release",
   "publisher": "Deutscher Bundestag / Bundesamt für Justiz",
   "url": "https://www.bundesjustizamt.de/DE/ServiceGSB/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2026/20260416.html",
   "date": "2026",
   "tier": "E2",
   "type": "official",
   "supportsFields": [
    "budget_anchor",
    "national_caseload"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.8,
   "quote": "BfJ total budget €138.4M (2026); ~1,400 staff. 2025 Central Authority: 497 new cases (408 return, 89 access); 187 incoming / 221 outgoing return. Unit-level budget and FTE NOT disclosed — estimates below are derived, not official."
  },
  {
   "id": "US_STATE_OCI",
   "title": "Office of Children's Issues (Bureau of Consular Affairs) — structure & IPCA report",
   "publisher": "U.S. Department of State",
   "url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/International-Parental-Child-Abduction.html",
   "date": "2025",
   "tier": "E2",
   "type": "official",
   "supportsFields": [
    "budget_anchor",
    "caseload_proxy"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.6,
   "quote": "OCI has Prevention, Abduction and Adoption units (28 staff at 1994 consolidation; larger today). No abduction-specific budget line published — estimate is derived."
  },
  {
   "id": "TH_OAG_CA",
   "title": "Thailand Central Authority — Office of the Attorney General, International Affairs Department (Child abduction in Thailand)",
   "publisher": "UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office / HCCH Central Authorities directory",
   "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-abduction-thailand/child-abduction-thailand",
   "date": "2024",
   "tier": "E2",
   "type": "official",
   "supportsFields": [
    "central_authority",
    "legal_framework"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.7,
   "quote": "Thai Central Authority for the 1980 Convention: Office of the Attorney General — International Affairs Department, Government Complex, Chaeng Watthana Road, Bangkok. Implementing law: Child Abduction Act B.E. 2555 (2012)."
  },
  {
   "id": "OECD_WAGES",
   "title": "Average annual wages / general government compensation (loaded-cost benchmark)",
   "publisher": "OECD",
   "url": "https://data.oecd.org/earnwage/average-wages.htm",
   "date": "2024",
   "tier": "E3",
   "type": "secondary",
   "supportsFields": [
    "fte_loaded_cost_benchmark"
   ],
   "confidence": 0.5,
   "quote": "Used only as a public-sector fully-loaded salary benchmark for FTE-based cost estimates (Level B). Secondary/benchmark source, not a budget figure."
  }
 ]
}