Eskender Bariiev, Head of the Board of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department of Legal Affairs and Foreign Affairs of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, identified 11 categories of children whose rights are violated due to the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.
During the presentation of the exclusive documentary Give Me Back My Dad! Bariiev noted that this film reflects the problem of violations of the rights of only two categories of children: children whose fathers are in places of detention and children whose parents were forcibly kidnapped and are considered missing.
But in fact, there are much more such categories:
– 15 children died tragically;
– 1 infant was separated from the mother;
– dozens of children suffered as a result of the murder and enforced disappearance of their fathers;
– tens of thousands of children are deprived of the right to study their native (Crimean Tatar or Ukrainian) languages in the occupied Crimea;
– tens of thousands of children suffered from ecocide in the occupied Crimea;
– hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children from the mainland of Ukraine are deprived of the right to health improvement and medical rehabilitation in children's health centers and children's specialized sanatoriums in Crimea;
– thousands of children became forced migrants, thus deprived of the right to live in their homeland in the national community;
– tens of thousands of children have become victims of the militarization of the educational process, in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 51 of the IV Geneva Convention, which prohibits the promotion of service in the army of the occupying state among the civilian population. Russia forms in the minds of Crimean children a cult of war, service in the Russian army, a cult of violence and hatred;
– Thousands of children become victims of incitement to ethnic hatred and racial intolerance;
– Thousands of children from orphanages are deprived of the right to obtain Ukrainian citizenship and move to the mainland of Ukraine;
– tens of thousands of children are restricted in their right to receive education at the higher education institutions of Ukraine.
“I believe that the Ukrainian and international communities should join forces to protect the rights of children affected by the occupation of Crimea in the near future. The Crimean Tatar Resource Center, for its part, will make every effort so that as many people in the world as possible can learn about the children who suffered from the occupation of Crimea”,- Bariiev.
We remind you that on November 22, at the Premier Palace hotel, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented an exclusive documentary Give Me Back My Dad! The film contains stories of children whose dads were imprisoned or forcibly kidnapped after the occupation of Crimea.