30/03/2022 10:47

The Commissioner asks the world community to react to the facts of illegal export of Ukrainian women and babies to the territory of the Russian Federation

The enemy continues to forcibly deport Ukrainian citizens from their places of permanent residence to the temporarily occupied territories or the territory of the Russian Federation.

From Mariupol, which is under siege by russian troops, the enemy took out midwives and doctors - more than 70 people from the Mariupol maternity hospital №2 in the Left Bank district.

Such actions by the occupiers endanger the lives and health of women and newborns, violate their right to life, liberty and security of person, as guaranteed by Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Article 49 of the 1949 Geneva Convention strictly prohibits, for whatever reason, the forced individual or mass resettlement or deportation of persons under protection from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying State or to the territory of any other State.

I appeal to the world community to react to the facts of illegal deportation of Ukrainian citizens to the territory of the Russian Federation - women with newborns, and to increase the sanctions pressure and isolation of the aggressor to return Ukrainian hostages.