In the framework of permanent cooperation with the United Nations’ bodies and agencies, our Association sent the next submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Professor Siobhán Mullally, for her next report on the rights of migrant, refugee, asylum-seeking and stateless children.
Our submission, prepared by the group of experts and published at the UN official web-cite now, reminded to Special Rapporteur that the Crimean criminal groups are connected with child trafficking and child pornography, as well as with forced labour in building sector, and in the same time this group is the key sponsor of so-called “Friends of Crimea” project, co-ordinated by the Russian government and intelligence, with participation of extremists and marginal politicians from some third states.
The ARC submission stressed again that the Russia-controlled troops and mercenaries committed gross violations of international law in Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine, including enforced labor, trafficking, servitude, and slavery against replaced and deported children.
The ARC submission added that in the Russia-occupied mainland territories of Ukraine, illegal “child protection services” are used by invaders for illegal pressure and threats against families of children who may sympathize with Ukraine, use tools of distance education by Ukrainian school programs, and refuse to take “Russian citizenship documents.”
The ARC submission proposed to Special Rapporteur to concentrate additional attention on such challenges as usage of deported, displaced and resettled children as hostages to block and delay the procedures of remedies for their violated rights; as the specialty of restitution and compensation of moral damage caused to child and methodic of such damage calculation; as the specialty of legal protection of rights and interests of children, who become victims of illegal behavior with non-determined personal target such as hate speech, racist statements and genocidal calls; as the specialty of legal protection of rights and interests of indigenous children and of children in conditions of armed conflict and residing in zones of foreign military control.
Our cooperation with UN bodies regarding relevant research and investigations will be continued.
