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A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied media allegations that he adopted a missing 2-year-old girl who was removed from a Ukrainian children’s home and changed her name in Russia. Sergey Mironov, 70, the leader of political party A Just Russia, asserted on social media that the Ukrainian security services and their Western partners concocted a “fake” report to discredit true…
Families search in vain through a maze of foster homes and holiday camps
Kostya Ten (pictured above) was 13 years old when Russian troops entered his village of Kosatske on the banks of the Dnieper in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine. He was a tearaway kid from a complicated family. His mother died when he was tiny; his father, who was ethnically Korean, used to grow watermelons but was bedridden following a stroke. He had five older sisters and was treated as the baby of the family. At the age of 11, Kostya began running around with a gang of older boys who stole scrap metal…
Russia has agreed to return four Ukrainian children to their families, as part of a deal brokered by Qatar.
The youngest is two years old and the oldest is 17.
The repatriation is part of a pilot scheme to return more of the thousands of children taken by Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.
Ukraine says it has identified 20,000 children who it alleges were abducted by Russia.
This calm, vivid documentary looks at the thousands of youngsters missing amidst the invasion – and their families’ search.
Be warned: the Russian response may cause outrage
These are terrible times, bleak times, and Ukraine’s Stolen Children is one of many films continuing to shed light on the growing list of horrors blighting the world. Veteran journalist and film-maker Shahida Tulaganova tells the horrifying story of the thousands of children reported missing from …
A United Nations investigation has found further evidence that Russian forces committed “indiscriminate attacks” and war crimes in Ukraine, including rape and the deportation of children to Russia.
“The collected evidence further shows that Russian authorities have committed the war crimes of wilful killing, torture, rape and other sexual violence, and the deportation of children to the Russian Federation,” a United Nations commission of inquiry on Ukraine…
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, CHIP President, discusses the measures in place to ensure that the many children that crossed the Polish/Ukraine border alone travelled with identity documents that would allow them to access child protection measures as they proceed on their journey.
Ce document fournit des conseils sur la manière d’appliquer les normes internationales en travaillant avec les enfants et leurs familles touchés par cette crise.
Con este documento se pretende ofrecer un marco sobre cómo implementar las normas internacionales al trabajar con niños/as y sus familias que se han visto afectados por esta crisis.
On March 8, 2023, the European Commission published the communication on “Temporary protection for those fleeing Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: one year on.” This Communication takes stock of the Temporary Protection Directive implemented on 4 March 2022 over the course of one year. It provides insight into how the EU managed to enable and coordinate a response to the largest displacement on European soil since the Second World War. It also identifies priority areas where continued efforts are needed to guarantee the rights provided for in the Directive. Furthermore,…
Совместное заявление о принудительном перемещении, депортации и усыновления украинских детей Россией
Принудительное перемещение, депортация и усыновление детей из Украины, призводящее к окончательному разлучению детей с их семьями, сообществами и культурой, является явным нарушением их прав человека и международного гуманитарного права и представляет существенную угрозу их безопасности и благополучию, а также их ощущению идентичности и принадлежности.
Мы осуждаем такую практику и призываем все стороны конфликта уважать международные законы и стандарты, существующие для защиты детей в конфликтах и других чрезвычайных ситуациях.
Мы призываем российские власти, включая…