27/04/2022 14:38

Commissioner: Russia violates the fundamental right of children to life and health care on a daily basis

As of 10 a.m. on April 27, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations and other sources that need to be confirmed, 217 children have died and 393 children have been injured (+2 per day) since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

It is impossible to estblish the actual number of dead and wounded children due to the fact that the occupying forces are actively fighting in Ukrainian cities.

Yesterday, the enemy fired on one of the schools in Lysychansk, Luhansk region, in the basement of which 23 people were hiding, including children.  Fortunately, there were no casualties.

In Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, the occupiers are threatening to spy women by threatening to shoot their children.

The russian military abducts young children and then forces their mothers to join the Ukrainian military, ostensibly for humanitarian aid.  After that, threatening to shoot the children, they demanded to tell how the positions of Ukrainian defenders were arranged.

It became known that on March 20, as a result of shelling by the aggressor country of Mariupol, Donetsk region, a 9-year-old child was injured, and on March 23 - an 8-year-old.  The occupiers took the children to russia.  So far they have been returned to Ukraine, they are in treatment.

Such actions by the russian occupation forces are a direct violation of the fundamental rights of children - the right to life and health, guaranteed to every child in the world by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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.

I call on international partners to provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!