15/05/2025 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"Ukrainian children are non-negotiable. There can be no just and lasting peace without the unconditional return of all deported and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children. The safe and immediate repatriation of these children must form an integral part of any future peace agreement", today said...
08/07/2024 | President
“Today I'm both saddened and angry at the barbaric destruction wrought this morning by Russian rockets in Ukraine,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos. “The number of victims has yet to be established, as many are still trapped under the debris, children and adults alike, including medical...
27/06/2024 | Session
“The situation of the children of Ukraine, deprived of their childhood by a war and, even more tragic, who have been uprooted and forcibly separated from their homeland, is of primary importance to us,” said PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos, on the occasion of the launching of the...
13/06/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
An Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau travelled to Geneva to meet several international organisations (UNICEF, UNHCR, OHCHR) on 13 June 2024 to discuss the situation of refugee, displaced and deported children of Ukraine. On this occasion, the President of the Assembly had a bilateral meeting with...
15/12/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) hearing on the situation of the children of Ukraine will take place in Paris on 15 December 2023. The meeting, which will be live-streamed, will be opened at 9.30 a.m. by PACE President Tiny Kox and PACE Vice-President Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, EC...
15/12/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“We politicians have a duty to take action, to support the children of Ukraine and their future, in host countries and within Ukraine. And we also have a duty to make every possible effort to help the return of deported and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children,” PACE President Tiny Kox said at...
27/04/2023 | Session
PACE has demanded the safe return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia or territory it temporarily occupies, as well as punishment of those who carried it out at all levels – pointing out that the documented evidence of this practice matches with the international definition of...