children's rights
Russians kill 12 people, including 7-year-old child in attack on residential building in Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast
Sumy Oblast Prosecutor’s Office specified that an eight-year-old boy had been killed in the attack
Russians killed mother and three children in Kryvyi Rih with a ballistic missile, including a baby under one year old
Correspondents from the national joint 24/7 newscast reported from the scene that an entire family, the mother and her three children: two and ten-year-old boys and a two-month-old girl, was killed in the Russian attack.
Russians have intensified filtration measures among teenagers in the occupied territories
According to the centre, this year alone, 263 minors have been registered by the Russians in the occupied Donetsk region, 16 of whom are considered "extremists".
In occupied Berdiansk, children studying in Ukrainian schools online are threatened to be removed from their families
In Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers threaten to deprive local residents whose children study in Ukrainian schools online of their parental rights. This was reported by Viktor Dudukalov, Deputy Chairman of the Berdiansk District Council, on the Espresso TV channel. He said that threats and cases of fines against parents of such children have recently […]
In the occupied Donetsk region, the number of members of the Young Guard – Yunarmiya military movement has exceeded 4 thousand
The occupation official added that 330 more people joined the movement this autumn. In particular, 29 young boys joined the ranks of Yunarmiya in Mariupol.
Russians kill entire family with an aerial bomb in Donetsk Oblast
The bomb struck a residential area, destroying a house
Militarisation of children and youth continues: 26 new junior military units formed in occupied Donetsk region
The representative of the occupation administration added that the "junior soldiers" from these cities actively participate in the activities of the militarised formation, taking first and prize places in military sports games organised by the Russians
Teachers under occupation: who should be punished for collaboration and what are the problems in the legislation
In Ukraine, since about November 2022, after the liberation of the temporarily occupied city of Kherson, there has been a professional, legal, and emotional discussion about how to approach the issue of educators’ work under occupation
Russians killed at least 44 and injured 150 Ukrainians in their attack on Ukraine cities
Plumes of smoke could be seen across the capital of Ukraine, while video posted on social media showed the destruction inside and outside of the Okhmadyt children's hospital
“We were kept in a pit near a petrol station”: a teenager from Kherson region told how he was taken to a torture chamber
The guy was taken to a cell where about 15 people were already there. It looked like some kind of shower room: everything was tiled and there was a drain in the corner. Vitalii was the youngest there.
Russia militarizes education and erases cultural identity of children in temporarily occupied Crimea – UN and Amnesty International
The International Court of Justice found that the way in which Russia had implemented its educational system in Crimea after 2014 with regard to school education in the Ukrainian language had violated its obligations under Articles 2(1)(a) and 5(v) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
More than 180 educational institutions in Kyiv region, destroyed by Russians, restored
136 schools and 175 kindergartens were located in the combat zone or on the temporarily occupied territory. Before the full-scale invasion of the Russian army, more than 52,000 students and almost 15,000 kindergarteners were studying there
95 executions in Donbas
Human rights defenders recorded 11 cases of executions by Ukrainian military
Human rights defenders former a coalition “Against torture” with intention to visit all the prisons of Ukraine
In recent times human rights violations became more serious and require more joint efforts to improve the situation...
PACE rapporteur criticizes Ukraine for ignoring former captives
Kleinberga now collects information in Ukraine about the released captives for the report, which PACE will consider next June.
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Ukrainian parliament appeals for NATO membership as foundation for lasting peace
Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
“Appeasement never works”: Lessons from Bosnia’s post-war justice
