Ukrainian official discusses taken children with Vatican envoy
Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff thanked a Vatican envoy on Tuesday for his efforts in trying to bring home thousands of children forcibly taken to Russia and asked him for help in returning prisoners of war. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has visited both Russia and Ukraine on a mission mandated by Pope Francis […]
Wow!: A 93-year-old Greek grandmother’s scarves travel to children in need
KAROLINA TAGARIS, of Reuters, meets Ioanna Matsouka…
Essay: How the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can guide governments through the turmoil of 2024
Law professor KATHRYN MCNEILLY, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could provide a way forward in a world in conflict…
Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus – Yale research
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsReuters More than 2,400 children from Ukraine aged between six and 17 years old have been taken to 13 facilities across Belarus since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, research published by Yale University said on Thursday. Ukraine’s prosecutor general said in May that he was investigating the alleged role of […]
Qatar helping four Ukrainian children go home from Russia to Ukraine
Doha, QatarReuters Qatar is helping four Ukrainian children return home from Russia this week under a mechanism Doha has set up with cooperation from both sides, and hopes to help bring more home in the future, a Qatari official told Reuters on Monday. A seven-year-old boy returned to Ukraine on Monday via Estonia after he […]
Vatican is moving ahead with plan to reunite Ukrainian children taken to Russia with their families
Rome, ItalyAP The Vatican is pressing ahead with a plan to try to reunite Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war with their families, a senior Vatican official said. The effort follows an explicit request by Ukraine and Russia has expressed an apparent willingness to engage in the process. The Vatican official spoke to […]
ICC expected to launch war crimes cases against Russians over Ukraine
Amsterdam, Netherlands/Near Kreminna, Ukraine Reuters The International Criminal Court is expected to seek the arrest of Russian officials for forcibly deporting children from Ukraine and targeting civilian infrastructure, a source said on Monday, in what would be the first international war crimes cases arising from Moscow’s invasion. The source said the arrest warrants could include […]
US-backed report says Russia has held at least 6,000 Ukrainian children for “re-education”
Washington DC, US Reuters Russia has held at least 6,000 Ukrainian children – likely many more – in sites in Russian-held Crimea and Russia whose primary purpose appears to be political re-education, according to a US-backed report published on Tuesday. The report said Yale University researchers had identified at least 43 camps and other facilities […]
Ukraine’s young circus artists wow Budapest after training in bomb shelters at home
Budapest, HungaryReuters Young acrobats from circus schools across Ukraine dazzled audiences in Budapest this week when the city hosted a Ukrainian youth circus festival to showcase the talents of children forced by the war to train underground or without electricity. After months of practice in their home cities of Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa and Donetsk, […]