Solutions to win: Korea assists Ukraine in building Children’s Rights Center in the Rivne region

In cooperation with South Korea, Ukraine plans to open a Center for the Protection of Children's Rights in the Rivne region.

This was reported in the Rivne Regional Military Administration, Rubryka writes.

What is the problem?

According to the official data of the Ukrainian authorities, since February 24, 2022, 19,546 children have been deported from Ukraine to Russia.

These are only those cases that were officially recorded — when the father, guardian, or witness of the child's deportation reported it to the National Information Bureau of Ukraine.

As Rubryka wrote, the authorities of Ukraine have currently recorded the stay of Ukrainian children kidnapped by the Russian Federation in 57 regions of Russia.

It should be noted that after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the arrest of the Russian ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian authorities changed their tactics of deporting Ukrainian children.

Representatives of the Russian Federation began to use new definitions in official documents so that no one could accuse them of kidnapping.

In addition, Putin signed an order allowing Ukrainian children to be granted Russian citizenship.

What is the solution?

It should be noted that in the Rivne region in 2024, great attention will be paid to the rights of minors.

"Children are one of the most important areas of our activity. We see how Russia continues to kidnap and deport our children. We are working and doing everything to return everyone to Ukraine. Each return is a unique special operation," said Oleksandr Korniychuk, representative of Ukraine's Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights in the Rivne region.

How does it work?

In the Rivne region, together with South Korea, they plan to open a Center for the Protection of Children's Rights.

"We are opening it in partnership with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). Some work is already underway today.

During 2024, the center will become operational, so that we have quality working conditions with children, including those we return from abroad," said Oleksandr Korolchuk, director of the Department of Digital Transformation and Public Communications of the Regional State Administration.

Korniychuk also talked about:

• some changes in the work of the Commissioner's Office since the beginning of martial law,
• peculiarities of protection of the rights of children and prisoners of war, as well as their families during martial law.

We will remind you that the empty and neglected yard of school No. 62 in Lviv was turned into a playground for elementary school students.

We also reported that in Irpin, the Kyiv region, a modern three-story kindergarten, Chervona Kalyna, which is designed for 300 children, was opened.