Reports and research – such as that carried out by Yale University – confirm that a significant number of Ukrainian children have been and are being indefinitely separated from their parents, often to be “re-homed” in Russia including through adoption...

Amnesty International reminds us that, according to international humanitarian law, members of the same family should not be separated in the process of an occupying power undertaking transfers or evacuations. The report notes that “regarding adoptions of Ukrainian children in Russia,...

Set up in March 2022, in conformity with this Council’s resolution 49/1, the Commission h visited 27 towns and settlements and has interviewed more than 150 victims and witnesses. They have “inspected sites of destruction, graves, places of detention and...

As President of Missing Children in Europe, Madame Maud de Boer-Buquicchio*, joined a team of experts in Poland to understand and assess the situation of the children displaced within Ukraine and/or entering Europe, with a particular focus on the risk...

The risks for children in Ukraine are increasing every day, as, as mentioned by UNICEF, some 1.5 million children have now left the country, at a rate of just under one per second, since the Russian invasion began on 24...