For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours ! - CSO
Ukrainian children deported to Russia
744,000*
Number of Ukrainian children in Russia,
*based on open source data, reported by the Russian Federation, as of end of May 2023
Ukraine warns of unreliability of Russian figures.
tens of thousands, or more*
Number of Ukrainian children in Russia,
*according to the Ukrainian authorities, who are now speaking of hundreds of thousands.
The occupation of 15% of Ukrainian territory and Russia's refusal to reveal the names and locations of stolen children make estimates extremely difficult.
19,546*
Number of documented cases of Ukrainian children in Russia
*Official figure given by the ChildrenOfWar website of the Ukrainian authorities, at the end of May 2023
386*
Number of Ukrainian children repatriated .
* Official figure given by the ChildrenOfWar website of the Ukrainian authorities , at the end of May 2023
Forced transfer of children from one group to another:
a crime against humanity and an act of genocide
Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
Section II
In this Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(...)
(e) Forced transfer of children from the group to another group.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtNational (1998)
Section 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purposes of this Statute, a crime against humanity means any
of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread attack or sysystematic attack launched against any civilian population and with knowledge of this attack:
(...)
d) Deportation or forced transfer of population
By "deportation
or forced transfer of population”,
we hear the fact of
forcibly move people
by expelling them
or by other coercive means,
of the region where they are legally located,
without grounds admitted under international law;
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Minors forcibly evacuated, separated from their families in "filtration camps", or having lost their families in the bombings and deported alone.
Miners injured in bombings and rounded up from hospitals territories occupied by the Russian army
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Disabled minors, minors removed from their families, orphan minors, systematically rounded up from Ukrainian institutions
Minors from the occupied territories sent to summer camp in Russia and never returned to their family
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Minors from the occupied territories sent to Russia on the pretext of medical examinations And never returned to their family
For Ukraine, for their freedom and ours! is the first association to have alerted public opinion and the French government to the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
Our goal is to facilitate the return of children to Ukraine, to their families, relatives or institutions in charge of children. We are currently raising funds to contribute to the repatriation of these children, in collaboration with the Ukrainian authorities and accredited NGOs.
Our actions to date include
- sustained advocacy in mainstream media
- an international petition having reached more than 265,000 signatures
- a communication to the ICC
- a sustained dialogue with French and European political figures on resolutions condemning these deportations
- marches and relay actions in collaboration with associations such as the Union of Ukrainians in France, or Russia-Freedoms
