Ukraine's Vereshchuk appeals to Russian ombudsmen to provide lists of orphans deported to Russia
Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has appealed to Russia's Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and Children's Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova to provide lists of orphans in the occupied territories who Russian forces deported to Russia
She wrote about this on Telegram.
“I propose to immediately transfer to the Ukrainian side the lists of all orphans and children deprived of parental care who: 1) as of February 24, 2022, were citizens of Ukraine, up to and including the age of 18, 2) are currently in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, 3) were transferred from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian territory. I suggest sending the lists to the following e-mail address: [email protected],” she wrote.
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On January 18, Lubinets said on Espreso TV that Russia had taken tens of thousands of children from Ukraine and was not providing information about them.
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During a meeting in Strasbourg with Jeroen Schokkenbroek, Director of the Council of Europe's Department for Combating Discrimination, Directorate General for Democracy and Human Dignity, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets discussed the deportation of Ukrainian children.
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On March 1, Kateryna Rashevska, a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights, reported that the Russian Federation has deported more than 1.5 million Ukrainian children to its territory since the beginning of its aggression against Ukraine.
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