Resources for "The War Against Ukraine’s Children."
These resources offer further background on the impact of Russia's war on Ukraine's children and efforts to respond to child rights violations.
Ukrainian government resources
- Children of War (Ukrainian Ministry of Reintegration and the National Information Bureau)
- Bring Kids Back UA (Office of the President of Ukraine)
- The Coordination Center for Family Upbringing and Child Care Development
Articles and reports
- Putin accused of fast-tracking Russian citizenship for abducted Ukrainian kids (Atlantic Council, January 25, 2024)
- Ukraine’s Stolen Children (New York Times, December 27, 2023)
- Belarus’ Collaboration with Russia in the Systematic Deportation of Ukraine’s Children: A Conflict Observatory Report (Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health, December 12, 2023)
- Ukrainians accuse Russia of kidnapping, indoctrinating Ukrainian children (CBS News, 60 Minutes, November 19, 2023)
- Moscow says 700,000 children from Ukraine conflict zones now in Russia (Reuters, July 2, 2023)
- Inside daring efforts to rescue Ukrainian children (NBC News, June 28, 2023)
- Key Recommendations on the Reform of Ukraine’s Child Protection and Care System – Eurochild (Eurochild, June 13, 2023)
- 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)
- “We Must Provide a Family, Not Rebuild Orphanages”: The Consequences of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine for Children in Ukrainian Residential Institutions (Human Rights Watch, March 13, 2023)
- Russia’s Systematic Program For The Re-Education & Adoption of Ukraine’s Children: A Conflict Observatory Report (Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health, February 14, 2023)
U.S. Department of State statements
- The Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine’s Children (U.S. Department of State, August 24, 2023)
- Imposing Sanctions and Visa Restrictions on Individuals and Entities to Promote Accountability for Forced Transfer and Deportation of Children During Russia’s Illegal War Against Ukraine (August 24, 2023)
- Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a UN Security Council Briefing on Ukraine (August 24, 2023)
- “United States Imposes Additional Sanctions and Export Controls in Coordination with International Partners” (U.S. Department of State, May 19, 2023)
- Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine (U.S. Secretary of State, February 18, 2023)
Global Affairs Canada statement
Legislative responses:
Council of Europe
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Resolution 2529 on the Situation of the children of Ukraine (adopted January 25, 2024)
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Recommendation 2265 on the Situation of the children of Ukraine (adopted January 25, 2024)
United States
- House Resolution 154: Recognizing Russian actions in Ukraine as a genocide (introduced February 24, 2023)
- House Resolution 149: Condemning the illegal abduction of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation (introduced February 21, 2023)
- Senate Resolution 158: A resolution condemning the deportation of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation and the forcible transfer of children within territories of Ukraine that are temporarily occupied by Russian forces (introduced April 17, 2023)
International law
Analysis and applications
- Way Home: Mechanism and Policy Framework for the Return of Illegally Deported and Forcibly Transferred Children (Regional Center for Human Rights, September 13, 2023)
- Fulfilling the Rights of Children without Parental Care Displaced from Ukraine: An analysis of international and European law (UNICEF, July 2023)
- International Law is Unambiguous When it Comes to Protecting Children in the Midst of Conflict (Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues, July 5, 2023)
- 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)
Moscow Mechanism: Report on Violations and Abuses of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, related to the Forcible Transfer and/or Deportation of Ukrainian Children to the Russian Federation (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, May 4, 2023)
“Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova” (International Criminal Court, March 17, 2023)
The Six Grave Violations Against Children During Armed Conflict: The Legal Foundation (United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, November 2013)
Global child rights frameworks concerning children affected by armed conflict and child-family separation
- Resolution on the Rights of the Child (children outside of family care, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, December 18, 2019)
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1612 (children and armed conflict, adopted by the United Nations Security Council, July 26, 2005)
- 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)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, November 20, 1989)
- 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)
- The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, December 9, 1948)