In framework of permanent cooperation with UN bodies our Association sent submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Professor Olivier De Schutter for his thematic report to the UN General Assembly on “Welfare and Control: The paternalism of support”, devoted to issues of child protection services’ activities.
ARC’s submission, published on UN official web-sources now, reminded that criminal groups, that use child sexual abuse and child trafficking in the Crimea, are subordinated and closely cooperate with the Russia-controlled “republican authorities”, that control illegal “child protection services” for last decade also.
ARC’s submission added that the participation of the Crimean organised criminal groups in sexual exploitation of youth, posed additional challenges to the identification of victims as there are no effective remedies in the occupied peninsula as a “grey zone”.
“Legislative frameworks” to combat child sexual abuse and child trafficking in Crimea were and are not effective, submission stressed, as Russia illegally applies its own legislation on occupied territory since 2014, and illegal “child protection services”, created in the Crimea, never reacted on those challenges.
ARC’s submission added, that In Russia-occupied mainland territories of Ukraine illegal “child protection services” are used by Russian invaders for illegal pressure and threat against families of children, which allegedly sympathize with Ukraine, and which use tools of distance education by Ukrainian school programs and refuse to take “Russian citizenship documents”.
Such threats and actions of illegal “child protection services” against such families includes participation in deportation, fines, imprisonment and “deprivation of parental rights” for parents, also as hate speech, indoctrination and forced “registration” in the aggressor’s local “military registration and enlistment offices”, Association stressed in the submission.
ARC’s submission summarised that issue of correct qualification of such international crime as enforced deportations of Ukrainian children by Russia-controlled persons is crucial, as there is some difference in such recognition as genocide crimes, or as war crimes or as crimes against humanity.
The big challenge is the perspectives of cases, initiated by such victims in national civil jurisdiction against Russia as state for moral and material damage compensation, submission points.
Our cooperation with UN structures for countering Russia-committed gross violation of international law will be continued.
