Svetlana Seleznyova, a practising child psychologist, comments on the practice of separating migrant children from their parents: “The sudden separation of a mother from her child almost always leaves a major imprint on the child’s mind. The depth and severity…
The Third court of cassation of general jurisdiction (St.Petersburg) has ruled that the earlier decisions of the Kuybyshevsky district court and the St. Petersburg city court, as well as the decision of the deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg city…
A heated discussion about family separation has been raging since 2018. The US practice of separating children from adult family members and holding them in detention camps caused broad public indignation after it emerged that adult migrants at the US-Mexico…
On October 17, 2019 within the campaign of ADC Memorial #CrossborderChildhood the round table ‘Cooperation in the field of return of children-migrants to country of origin’ was organized by ADC Memorial and Center for Social and Gender Studies. The event…
Speech by Kateryna Budiyanskaya at the side event #CrossborderChildhood: the rights of migrant children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Even though Ukraine has essentially left the CIS and taken a path towards European integration, the return of migrant children…
On October 14, 2015, six-month-old Umarali Nazarov died in Saint Petersburg after he was forcibly taken from his mother at a police precinct while she was being investigated for violating migration rules. On October 13, Umarali’s mother, Zarina Yunusova, was…
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