In framework of permanent co-operation with UN bodies our Association sent submission to Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights for his study on the solutions to promote digital education for young people and to ensure their protection from online threats to be presented at Human Rights Council in September.
ARC’s submission, prepared by professor Borys Babin and published at UN web-sources, stressed that in Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine the so-called “Russian standards” of education established that reject the issues of human rights education and includes strong illegal Russia’s militaristic propaganda, propaganda of so-called “priority” of “Russian world” in standards of Nazi policy, hate speech against ethnic Ukrainians and elements of racial discrimination.
ARC’s submission reminded that some teachers of Ukrainian schools in Russia-occupied Ukraine’s mainland areas were kidnapped by Russian troops and some teacher from Crimea were ‘punished’ and ‘dismissed’ by Russia-controlled criminal “administration” for their position against Russia’s war propaganda in local ‘schools’. Submission stressed that some thousands of Ukrainian minors from Russia-occupied Ukraine’s mainland areas were transferred illegally to Russia-occupied Crimea and to Russia itself and were kept there by force without adequate education.
ARC’s submission pointed that Russian illegal “educational policy” includes punishment for the youth and their parents for attempts to get distance Ukrainian education on-line. Russian occupiers’ “administrations” and “school management” check pupils’ mobiles searching applications that allow them to communicate with Ukrainian educational institutions online. If such applications are found the aggressor’s punitive structures initiate repressions against pupils’ parents, including illegal “deprivation of parental rights”.
ARC’s submission stressed that schools in Russia-occupied Ukrainian territories, especially in relevant parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions are used criminally by Russian invaders as places of disposition Russian troops and ammunition, school libraries are criminally destroyed or censured against any literature on Ukrainian language and about Ukraine. Those criminal steps of Russian invaders brutally violate the principles of availability, accessibility, acceptability and adaptability of education, submission added.
ARC’s submission stressed that over 120 illegal “administrative cases” have recently been opened against Crimean ‘teachers’ and activists by Russian invader’s “law enforcement officers”; and those repressions continue throughout the period of occupation.
ARC’s submission added that Russian illegal “educational policy” brutally violate the demands of article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of articles 13 and 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and of article 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and others of the Convention on the Rights of the Child also as article 2 of Protocol to European Convention on Human Rights, obligatory for Russia till September, 2022.
