{"id":38064,"date":"2026-06-03T07:35:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=38064"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:26:35","slug":"violations-of-ukrainian-childrens-rights-in-the-context-of-war-a-publication-by-adc-memorial-brussels-and-kharkiv-human-rights-protection-group-marking-dated-to-the-junes-child-prot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/breaking-news\/violations-of-ukrainian-childrens-rights-in-the-context-of-war-a-publication-by-adc-memorial-brussels-and-kharkiv-human-rights-protection-group-marking-dated-to-the-junes-child-prot\/","title":{"rendered":"Violations of Ukrainian Children\u2019s Rights in the Context of War: A Publication by ADC Memorial Brussels and Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Marking dated to the June\u2019s Child Protection Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark International Children\u2019s Day on June 1 and International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on June 4, ADC Memorial Brussels and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group have prepared a publication on violations of the rights of Ukrainian children\u2014victims of the aggressive war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of the war crimes against children are related to the violent actions of the Russian military: children are killed and injured during shelling and other military operations constantly carried out by Russian troops against the civilian population of Ukraine; during the war, homes, children\u2019s institutions, and civilian infrastructure are destroyed, children are often forced to live in terrible conditions \u2013 without water, electricity, or heat; many do not receive a full-fledged education \u2013 not all schools are safe, and online studies are not possible everywhere due to power outages and interruption of mobile communications.<\/p>\n

In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, there are documented cases of sexualized violence against children, their exploitation, and use as hostages; teenagers accused of resisting the occupation authorities ended up in Russian prisons. A proven war crime of the Russian Federation is the removal of children from Ukraine without the consent of their legal representatives to Russia and Belarus, keeping them for a long time in institutions and transfer to foster families, and the deprivation of their Ukrainian identity, language, and ties with Ukraine.\u00a0Ukrainian children living in the temporarily occupied territories as well as exported to the regions of Russia are subjected to massive militaristic propaganda, are involved in the activities of paramilitary children\u2019s organizations; the Russian authorities are trying to use them in the war against Ukraine, their native country.<\/p>\n

International organizations, governments of countries supporting Ukraine, and charitable initiatives of politicians should work to adopt an action plan to protect Ukrainian children, including creating opportunities to leave Russian Federation and return to Ukraine for those children who ended up in the Russian Federation or in the occupied territories; measures to stop the violence of the Russian military, who commit crimes against children in war zones and in the occupied territories; the immediate return, in a war-prisoner exchange, of those children (or young people who were children at the moment of their arrest) who are accused of resisting the occupation authorities and are being imprisoned in Russian pre-trial detention centers and prisons; it is necessary to achieve a complete cessation of the use of children for military purposes, whether it is the development of drone models, training in warfare, work in military factories; it is also necessary to completely eliminate the propaganda of militarism and chauvinism in the education and upbringing of children, and to give them the opportunity to study according to the program of Ukrainian schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n