As before broad-scale Russian aggression so after February, 2022 our Association informed competent international structures about violation youth and children on Russia-occupied territories.
In framework of our permanent co-operation with UN structures ARC sent submission for UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, for preparations of her next thematic report to the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, to be presented in March 2023.
In ARC’s submission we informed UN bodies about war crimes were committed by the Russian troops, including usage civil population, including children as hostages and “human shield”, destruction objects of civil infrastructure, including pipe electric lines, bomb the humanitarian objects, including kindergartens, schools and hospitals by missiles and artillery. We pointed oto Special Rapporteur that in July-November 2022 Russian invaders transferred illegally some hundred of Ukrainian children from Russia-occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions’ areas to Russia-occupied Crimea allegedly for “recreation and safety” but de-facto as hostages.
We pointed to UN officials that all those steps of the Nazi policy of Russian government and by the Russia-controlled “administrations” in Russia-occupied Crimea, discricts of South and East of Ukraine’s mainland in areas of violence against children and their exploitation must be reflected in UN official position.
ARC stressed that Ukrainian children in hostilities zone and in Russia-occupied territories are extremely vulnerable groups that need urgent international protection, and that UN Commission’s monitoring procedure, mentioned in Human Rights Council resolution 49/1, must be enforced and strengthened.
