21/04/2022 14:55

The occupiers of the aggressor country forcibly deported a group of Ukrainian children to Russia

The other day a group of Ukrainian teenagers aged 14-15 was brought to one of the charitable foundations of the Russian Federation (Vladimir) from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

There is information that the parents of the children were killed by rashists during the war.  It is forbidden for workers of this foundation to search for relatives of children.

Russia's occupying state grossly violates Article 49 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which prohibits the forcible resettlement or deportation of persons from the occupied territories and Article 38 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the armed conflicts.

I appeal to the Security Service of Ukraine, the International Committee  of the Red Cross of Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Center for Peacebuilding to assist in the speedy search for and return of children.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of Russia's violations of children's rights in Ukraine.