Excellencies, Today, we speak about people. The people of Ukraine — children, families, and communities — whose rights should be protected by international humanitarian law and international human rights law, yet whose rights Russia violates every single day. Russia’s brutality has stolen childhoods. It has forcibly taken Ukrainian children from their homes, their families, and their identity. It has arbitrarily detained thousands of Ukrainian civilians. It subjects prisoners of war to torture…
Excellencies, Today, we speak about people. The people of Ukraine — children, families, and communities — whose rights should be protected by international humanitarian law and international human rights law, yet whose rights Russia violates every single day. Russia’s brutality has stolen childhoods. It has forcibly taken Ukrainian children from their homes, their families, and their identity. It has arbitrarily detained thousands of Ukrainian civilians. It subjects prisoners of war to torture, inhuman and cruel treatment, sexual and other grave abuses. These are not abstract violations. They are shattered lives, broken families, and futures put on hold. These are war crimes. We see this. And we cannot look away. Last week, with the…
