Analytical Report “Destroyed Childhood: Seven Months of War through the Lens of Children’s Rights”
Almost eight months have passed since the beginning of the new stage of the eight-year Russian Ukrainian war. A full-scale invasion of the forces of the Russian Federation into Ukraine at 5 o’clock in the morning on the 24th of February 2022 did not leave a single town, which would have not suffered the consequences of the armed aggression. But the most vulnerable group was 5.7 million children of the country. Every day, more and more Ukrainian children suffer from the horrors of war: die, maimed, lose access to humanitarian needs, become internally relocated persons and refugees in other countries, come under fires, become the hostages of the Russian military and the victims of kidnapping, get deep trauma from violence, including sexual one.
As a result of attacks using blast weapons, in the populated centres of Ukraine orphanages, schools, hospitals, water supply systems, power plants, shelters for the civilians were damaged or ruined.
The war in Ukraine is a crisis in protection of children and children’s rights.
In this report, the information about grave violations against children in the situation of the military conflict from 24 February to 24 September 2022 was collected and analysed.
The analytical report was prepared by the Center of Civic Education “Almenda” within the framework of the project “Chronicles of the Ruined Childhood”. The project is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic as part of the Transition Promotion Program. The views expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not reflect the official position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
