YouSaid · the spoken record

Rashevska

lines on the record
10
first
2023-08-24
most recent
2023-08-24
sittings or episodes
1
sources
un-security-council

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

  1. “Now is the Council’s moment. It is time that members demonstrated their commitment to international law and to children’s best interests by helping Ukrainian children to return to their normal lives — something they will never be able to do in Russia.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  2. “I call on the Russian Federation to facilitate the return of Bogdan and Denys to Ukraine. So far only 386 children have been returned. I am addressing the Council today with a clear call to assist with the return of Ukrainian children. The obligation of immediate and unconditional repatriation is universally recognized. The relevant article of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions was adopted by consensus. We need a General Assembly resolution that will define the obligations of every member of the international community regarding returning Ukrainian children. We should establish a transparent process between Ukraine and Russia through the appointment of a third-party guarantor and the conclusion of an internationally binding agreement. Leaving Ukrainian children in Russia means that their rights will continue to be violated.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  3. “Due to the lack of access to those areas, it is impossible to confirm or deny whether Ukrainian children have returned to their homes. However, we do know about the difficulties that legal representatives have been dealing with regarding the return of children who have displaced since 2022. They include additional checks at the border, long interrogations by representatives of Russian law enforcement, requirements for obtaining Russian citizenship and reissuing guardianship documents that accord with Russian legislation, and being forced to undress or take polygraph examinations. A relative of 17-year-old Denys was deported from Russia without explanation and without Denys. Another 17-year-old, Bogdan, was detained at the border and once again transferred to a Russian foster family.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  4. “I want to emphasize that for six years Russia has not been implementing the International Court of Justice’s order that it ensure the right to education in the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar languages in Crimea. The decision’s weak enforcement has resulted in that violation being repeated in the newly occupied territories. But the so-called re-education does not take place in schools alone. Earlier this year, the Yale School of Public Health showed how recreation camps are also involved in the process. This year we have already recorded the transfer of at least 7,116 children to 46 camps in the Russian Federation, seven in occupied Crimea and four in Belarus. Some facilities are 9,000 kilometres from the children’s original homes. Others are located not far from military facilities.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  5. “As a Venezuelan diplomat explained in the original Sixth Committee debates on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the forcible transfer of children to a group where they would be given an education different from their own, as well as new customs, a new religion and probably a new language, would in practice be tantamount to the destruction of their own group, whose future depended on that generation of children. Moreover, a school education is mandatory in most countries. Russia, as an occupying Power, must provide Ukrainian children with access to a Ukrainian education. Instead, they are forbidden to speak or learn the Ukrainian language, to attend Ukrainian schools even online and to preserve and manifest their Ukrainian identity.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  6. “There is no dual citizenship agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Russian citizenship is needed only for the forced transfer. As Maria Lvova- Belova, commissioner for the Russian Federation on children’s rights, there are already 380 such children who have been transferred to Russian Families. However, the process is ongoing. In that context, while agreeing that the known cases of transfer were indeed for guardianship, I want to emphasize that raising those children by Russian citizens, as well as political indoctrination, Russification and militarization in the education system, which the Ukrainian children are obliged to receive, is a violation of several articles at once of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and also include elements of discrimination and crimes against humanity.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  7. “But legislative changes made by the Russian authorities to facilitate that as well as the treatment of Ukrainian children who have had Russian citizenship imposed on them do not back up that claim. Following a detailed analysis of Russian legislation on citizenship, it is clear that, if high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation intended to act solely for humanitarian reasons, then, instead of amendments to legislation for the simplified imposition of Russian citizenship, laws would have been adopted to facilitate obtaining medical care and removing obstacles to education and social benefits. But that is not the case. It is worth emphasizing that, despite the declarations, Ukrainian children are recognized exclusively as Russian citizens in relations with Russia.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  8. “Those considerations formed the basis of the decision of the International Criminal Court’s Pre-Trial Chamber II to issue arrest warrants against President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. Unlawful deportation and forcible transfer are not the only serious violations suffered by Ukrainian children. I would like to draw the Council’s attention to the imposition of Russian citizenship on Ukrainian children, because the right to preserve one’s identity is a prerequisite for exercising all human rights for children. Russian authorities claim that the imposition of Russian citizenship on Ukrainian children is strictly a humanitarian action.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  9. “According to the Ukrainian National Information Bureau, since 18 February 2022, Russian agents have taken at least 19,546 children from Ukraine to 57 regions of the Russian Federation. Among those children, 3,855 are orphans and children deprived of parental care. The Russian authorities claim that that displacement is an evacuation. However, it is a violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a war crime. Russia deliberately created the conditions for such a transfer of children, publicly intending to keep those children under Russian influence forever, and refuse to transfer a list of evacuated children to the Central Tracing Agency of the International Committee of the Red Cross.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source

  10. “Ms. Rashevska: I would like to thank the United States Permanent Mission for inviting me to address the Security Council today on the issue of the unlawful deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children. I am honoured to be included among such a distinguished audience. My goal and objective is the pursuit of a solid solution to the crisis affecting Ukrainian children. It is based on the best interests of the child, and I ask the Security Council for help. According to the rapporteurs of the third Moscow Mechanism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, before Russia’s full-scale invasion, more than 1,000 children were displaced from Crimea to the Russian Federation for adoption.”

    2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source