Thread by @ncljax

Tonight on Genocide in Ukraine we will continue our discussion about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Genocide Convention, and the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab report on Russia’s Systematic Program of Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children.

This can be an emotional topic; here are resources we share every week to assist if you experience distress.

In December we began discussing the rights of the child. Our prior topic was the commemoration of the Holodomor. That full thread is here:

Here's the link to the Space and resource thread from December 5, including the link to the Yale HRL report and the UN Security Council meeting on the topic.

Here is the link to the Space and resource thread from December 12:

Here is the link to the Space from December 19:

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by the UN in 1959. Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty was recognized in 1989 by most UN member states and entered into force Sept. 2, 1990. Russia is a party to it.
ohchr.org/en/instruments…

The Declaration's 4 guiding principles:
1. Principle of non-discrimination;
2. Principle of right to life, survival, and development; 3. Principle of doing what is in the best interest of the child;
4. Principle of meaningfully engaging and respecting children's views.

unicef offers a child-friendly version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child here:
unicef.org/child-rights-c…

Here is the Yale HRL's main page for the report on Russia’s Systematic Program of Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children, including a video interview, summary of key findings, and links to the full report:
hub.conflictobservatory.org/portal/apps/si…

Yale HRL has previously reported on Russia's Systematic Program for the Re-education and Adoption of Ukraine's Children in February 2023
hub.conflictobservatory.org/portal/apps/si…

Yale HRL has previously reported on Belarus' Collaboration with Russia in the Systematic Deportation of Ukraine’s Children in November 2023
hub.conflictobservatory.org/portal/apps/si…

Here's our prior thread on Article II (e) of the Genocide Convention: Forcibly Transferring Children of the Group to Another Group:

Here's our December 15, 2023 thread on the Yale HRL report on Belarus' collaboration with russia on the systematic deportation of Ukraine's children. I recommend following its links to the December 8 (and its link to the December 1) resource thread, too.

childrenofwar.gov.ua/en/

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Russia abducted 48 toddlers during its retreat from Kherson

More on 18-year-old Ukrainian orphan, Oleksandr Yakushchenko, who was relocated from the Kherson region to Russia, reportedly committed suicide while living with a foster family in Russian Krasnodar Krai

Gina discussed this important Kyiv Post interview with David Satter - The Truth About Russia: Putin’s Rise, Morality, and Global Propaganda
kyivpost.com/videos/43641

Here's the thread from Sergej Sumlenny that we've discussed before - how russia primed its population for this invasion and promoted stalinism, nazism, and russia's amoral brutality

Here's the der Spiegel article / interview with Lev Gudkov, scientific director of the Levada Center, that Gina read from:
spiegel.de/international/…