Ukraine, together with the UN, is developing an implementation strategy of prevention and overcoming violations of children's rights in the conditions of armed aggression

For the co -chair of the Advisor - the Presidential President of Ukraine and Children's Rehabilitation, Darya Gerasimchuk and the head of the UNICEF representation in Ukraine, Murat Shahina, a strategic session on children in armed conflicts took place.

As part of the Bring Kids Back UA program, prepared on behalf of President Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian Interagency Working Group together with UN agencies and structures in Ukraine began to work on a strategy for implementation of a joint plan .

In the first part of the strategic session, UNICEF Manager in Ukraine on Emergency Protection in Emergency Situations Michel Oliel presented a mechanism of monitoring and reporting, which was launched in Ukraine since Russian armed forces and armed groups were included in the "List of Shame" UN Secretary for Children and Armed Conflicts. "On how we work together today, the decisions that are made and the efforts that are made internationally," Michelle Oill commented.

During the strategic session, proposals for further joint steps were developed to prevent the recruitment and use of Ukrainian children, their murders and injuries, sexual abuse against them, attacks on schools and hospitals, as well as the abduction of young Ukrainian citizens. “In all ways, we protect our children and work to ensure that each of our actions, every preventive step influence the Russian Federation and forced the Russian aggressor to stop its criminal activity.

And today, when we, together with the UN, develop an implementation strategy of prevention and overcome violations against a child in the conditions of armed aggression of the Russian Federation, we take steps to save from the horror of war and return every Ukrainian child, ”Daria Gerasimchuk said.