ANNOUNCEMENT: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: How to Protect the Rights of Children in Crimea?

On Friday, November 19 at 14:00, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center invites everyone to join an online conference dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The organization’s experts will talk about the illegal actions of the Russian Federation in the occupied Crimea, due to which the smallest inhabitants of the peninsula suffer.

Until 2014, Crimea was a wonderful place for many people of different ethnicities and religions, but after the Russian occupation of the peninsula in 2014, everything changed. Repression, persecution, arrests are the current realities, from which not only adults but also children suffer.

Why is the Convention important in today's world? How do children live in Crimea under occupation? How does the Russian Federation violate the rights of children on the peninsula? Why is it important to talk about it? And how to help the smallest Crimeans? These and other questions will be revealed by our experts at the press conference The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: How to Protect the Rights of Children in Crimea?

Speakers:

Eskender Bariiev – Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department of Legal and Foreign affairs of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People;

Zarema Bariieva – Manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center;

Liudmyla Korotkykh – Manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center;

Borys Babin – expert of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Doctor of Law;

Leviza Dzhelyalova – wife of a political prisoner, First Deputy Chairman of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Nariman Dzhelialov.

During the event, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center will also present a trailer for the exclusive documentary Give Me Back My Dad! The film raises one of the most pressing and painful topics of our time: childhood without a father. We have collected stories of children whose dads were imprisoned or forcibly kidnapped after the occupation of Crimea.

The broadcast will be available via the CTRC Facebook page.

Contacts: [email protected], +380673437454