Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine - Security Council, 9799th meeting

Maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine.
Russian Federation’s War against Ukraine ‘Upending Lives of Children’, United Nations Agency Head Tells Security Council
Deportations, Illegal Transfers of Children Constitute War Crimes, Violate Fourth Geneva Convention, Says Delegate

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 02:28:55
• Production Date: 4 December 2024
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD; CATHERINE M. RUSSELL
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS; RIGHTS OF THE CHILD; UNITED NATIONS ROLE; DISAPPEARANCE OF PERSONS; WAR; HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICTS; ABDUCTION; UN CHARTER; REPATRIATION; PRISONERS OF WAR; WAR VICTIMS; INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
• Geographic Subject: UKRAINE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION
• MAMS Id: 3318956
• Parent Id: 3318140

Description

As the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine advances past the thousandth-day mark and ratchets up in intensity, it is “upending the lives of children”, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council, at a meeting in which speakers debated the findings of a recent investigation suggesting that Moscow has a programme facilitating the systematic transfer, adoption and naturalization of Ukrainian children. 

Briefer: Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) 

Briefer: Mr. Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health 

Briefer: Ms. Kateryna Rashevska, Legal expert, Regional Center for Human Rights 

Statements: All Council members 

Statements: Ukraine [Daria Zarivna, Advisor, the Office of the President of Ukraine], Poland 

Statement: Her Excellency Hedda Samson, Chargée d’affaires a.i. of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations (on behalf of the European Union and its member States, as well as North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino) 

Statement: Latvia (on behalf of: Baltic States) 

Statement: Canada 

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