In framework of permanent cooperation with UN bodies our Association sent submission to UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Professor Tomoya Obokata for his report to 60th session of the Human Rights Council on “the worst forms of child labour”.
Those “worst forms” as per Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 mean sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict, children prostitution and pornography etc.
ARC’s submission, prepared by Professor Borys Babin and Julia Sidorenko, and published at UN official web sources now, reminded to UN Special Rapporteur, that criminal groups, involved in the child trafficking in the Crimea, are closely connected to Russia’s special services and to the so-called “Crimean republican authorities”, including illegal “child protection services”.
ARC’s submission described again to UN bodies events of Russian illegal deportation of Ukrainian children and added, that “legislative frameworks” to combat child sexual abuse and child trafficking in Crimea are not effective, 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 stressed again that the demands of Rome Statute, Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols to them, must be taken in account in issues of children rights to access to justice, inclusive social protection and countering the trafficking, regarding conditions of the hostilities, interstate conflicts, aggressions, foreign occupation, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against children. Our work with the UN, defending the rights of Ukrainian children in the Crimea, will be continued.
