In framework of permanent cooperation with United Nations’ bodies and agencies, our Association informed again, in the end of 2024, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Mr. Gehad Madi, also as the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on challenges of Ukrainian children, deported by Russia.
Those ARC’s submissions, prepared by Dr. Borys Babin and Yulia Sidorenko and published at UN web-sources in April, reminded to UN officials, that the participation of the Crimean organised criminal groups in sexual exploitation of youth, posed additional challenges to the identification of victims, including disappeared ones, as there are no effective remedies in the occupied peninsula as a “grey zone”.
ARC’s submissions reminded that Russia-committed separation of deported children from their parents for indefinite periods, including facts of documented disappearances, constitute a gross violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Also, submissions stressed, the 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.
ARC’s submissions added that issues of legal subjectivity and responsibility of artificial intelligence, involved in Ukrainian children discrimination, sexual exploitation and abuse by Russia-controlled persons also as of its creators and coordinators, must be researched.
ARC’s submissions stressed that the missing displaced, deported and migrated children’s rights to access to justice and effective remedies must be researched in context of execution the decision of international courts and of foreign national courts, connected with interstate conflicts, foreign effective control and international crimes, including duty to counteract sexual crimes against children.
