Theme: children’s rights

On June 4, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ghent University and the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial Brussels will host an event in Ghent on the rights of Ukrainian children in wartime. Human rights activists Yevhen Zakharov, head of Kharkiv…

In Russia, 41 regions have now introduced a maternity allowance of around 100,000 rubles (approximately €1,070) for pregnant schoolgirls. Previously, this benefit was only available to university students. Officially, the money is intended to support girls in difficult life circumstances…

Three years have passed since the beginning of full-scale Russian aggression, when millions of Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes under shelling and take their children to safe places. Many of the children who left Ukraine at that time…

The State Duma finally passed a shameful bill on the non-admission of non-citizen children to school if they do not have proof of the Russian language competence and the legality of their stay in the Russian Federation. This is presumably…

On the eve of the International Day of the Rights of the Child (June 1st), an interesting discussion of the informational rights and needs of children has arisen in Russia. Valeriy Fadeyev, the Chairman of Russia’s presidential Council for Human…

Voxpot (in Czech): Za více než dva roky plnohodnotné invaze deportovala Moskva do Ruska tisíce nezletilých Ukrajinců. Mnohé z nich sirotky, na jiné naopak doma marně čekají příbuzní. Jaké plány s nimi Kreml má a existuje ještě šance na návrat?…