Recent reports have confirmed that Russia has transferred more than 19,000 Ukrainian children – and possibly significantly more – in a campaign of “Russification” aimed at their forced assimilation and permanent separation from their nation, write Payam Akhavan, Human Rights Chair at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, and Andriy Kostin, prosecutor-general of Ukraine.
Many of the victims have been transferred to centres in the occupied territories and then deported to child care institutions in the Russian Federation, followed by adoption into families. Others are children who were abducted while on holiday, through the use of a network of 43 re-education camps.
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Recent reports have confirmed that Russia has transferred more than 19,000 Ukrainian children – and possibly significantly more – in a campaign of “Russification” aimed at their forced assimilation and permanent separation from their nation.
Many of the victims have been transferred to centres in the occupied territories and then deported to child care institutions in the Russian Federation, followed by adoption into families.
These ongoing crimes – reminiscent of the mass kidnapping of Polish children by the Nazis – require decisive international action.
In September, the Canadian government took significant action by imposing Magnitsky sanctions on 42 individuals and 21 entities implicated in the transfer and custody of Ukrainian children in Russia.
Ensuring the safe return of all Ukrainian children to their rightful homes is not just a matter of international law; it is our collective responsibility, rooted in our shared humanity.
The ongoing systematic and large-scale transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and Russian-occupied territories is one of the darkest chapters in recent history.
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