Resources for “The Forcible Transfer and Deportation of Ukrainian Children by Russia: Search for Solutions”

These resources have been shared by panelists as background to the webinar on the July 12, 2023 event "The Forcible Transfer and Deportation of Ukrainian Children by Russia: Search for Solutions."

“How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians” (Associated Press, March 17, 2023)
“‘At very beginning of very hard work’: Brussels and Warsaw team up to track deported Ukrainian kids” (Euronews, March 23, 2023)
“Child abductions reveal the genocidal intent behind Putin’s Ukraine invasion” (Atlantic Council, March 23, 2023)
“Forcible transfer and deportation of children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation” (Zmina, April 2023)
““Could be considered a crime against humanity”: OSCE report on Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children” (RadioSvoboda, May 4, 2023)
“Russia says more than 300,000 Ukrainian children “deported”” (Ukrainska Pravda, June 19, 2023)
“Moscow says 700,000 children from Ukraine conflict zones now in Russia” (Reuters, July 2, 2023)

For additional information about these treaties, please read “International Law is Unambiguous When it Comes to Protecting Children in the Midst of Conflict,” a blog post by Gillian Huebner, executive director of the Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, December 9, 1948)
The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols (International Committee of the Red Cross)
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977 (International Committee of the Red Cross)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, November 20, 1989)
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (adopted by the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, July 17, 1998)
Resolution 1612 (Children and armed conflict) (adopted by the United Nations Security Council, July 26, 2005)
Resolution on the Rights of the Child (adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, December 18, 2019)

Children and Armed Conflict: A Legal Glossary on Abduction and Deportation (Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and the Generating Respect Hub, University of York Centre for Applied Human Rights, June 2023)

Children of War (Ukrainian Ministry of Reintegration and the National Information Bureau)
Provisions the RF Violates Against Children and Adults (Where Are Our People?)