June 1, 2022, on International Children's Day, scientific and pedagogical employees and students of the Faculty of Law took part in online conference «Bloody Childhood: Russia's War Crimes Against Ukrainian children».
The problem of protecting the rights of children in a state of war is very relevant and requires legal regulation and protection from both national and international institutions. Ensuring the rights of children in times of war requires consolidation of efforts the number of organizations and institutions, including institutions of higher education.
The event was attended by: Chairman of the Department for the Protection of Children's Rights and Countermeasures Violence of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yulia Usenko, Head of the Center civic education «Almenda» Valentina Potapova, leading expert Kharkiv Institute for Social Research Andrey Chernousov, Chairman of the Board charitable foundation «Voices of Children» Elena Rozvadovskaya and others. National Aviation University was represented by the Dean of the Faculty of Law Irina Sopilko, Director of the Information and Educational Center for Human Rights Оlena Makeіeva and Yana Temchenko, a student of the PR-102B group.
The participants presented materials on the violation of the rights of children to education and investigation of war crimes against children leading the Office of the Attorney General Ukraine. Representatives of human rights organizations told and cited documented data on war crimes against Ukrainian children, including: bombing residential areas, schools, kindergartens, using prohibited means of conducting wars that affect children; killings, injuries, ill-treatment and child sexual abuse; kidnapping and forced deportation of children, recruitment of teenagers to participate in hostilities; propaganda of militarism among Ukrainian children in the occupied territories and the erasure of their national identity and other facts.
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