In the framework of permanent cooperation with UN bodies and agencies, our Association sent in 2025 its own submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for its draft of the next Committee’s general comment No. 27 on children’s right to access to justice and to an effective remedy.
ARC submission, published at the UN official web-sources at the end of September, reminded the UN that groups involved in child sexual abuse and child trafficking in the Crimea have features of ethnically grounded criminal entities that operate in Yalta, Alushta, and other places.
Those criminal groups have close connections with illegal “Crimean republican authorities,” including Sergey Aksyonov, Vladimir Konstantinov, and others, the submission stressed, with the point on fact that the “Crimean judges” are totally corrupted and connected to the organized criminal groups involved in child sexual abuse and child trafficking in the Crimea that allows participants of those crimes to enjoy full impunity.
The ARC submission stressed again that the main challenge for access to justice and remedies for the violation of Ukrainian children’s rights, for children, that are still under Russian control in Russia and in Russian-occupied territories, that the legal steps in such areas de-facto block negotiations, as Russia uses those children as hostages.
So we proposed to the UN Committee to concentrate additional attention in its draft general comment on such challenges as the subjectivity of children as victims that is violated during illegal adoption, changing the name and nationality of a child; usage of deported, displaced, and resettled children as hostages to block and delay the procedures of remedies for their violated rights; specialty of restitution and compensation of moral damage caused to children; and methodic of such damage calculation.
We also proposed to the UN Committee to concentrate attention on the specialty of legal protection of rights and interests of children, who become victims of illegal behavior with non-determined personal targets, such as hate speech, racist statements, and genocidal calls; on the specialty of legal protection of rights and interests of children, who are victims or applicants in international legal proceedings, including the European Court on Human Rights and the International Criminal Court.
We also proposed to the UN Committee to take into account the specialty of legal protection of rights and interests of indigenous children and of children in conditions of armed conflict and residing in zones of foreign military control.
Issues of legal subjectivity and responsibility of artificial intelligence involved in the violation of the rights of children, children’s discrimination, illegal exploitation, and abuse, as of its creators and coordinators, must be researched also, as our submission stressed.
Our cooperation with UN bodies on issues of deported Ukrainian children will be continued; relevant challenges now were highlighted in the publication of “The Washington Times” that mentioned relevant experts’ opinions.
