The United Nations Human Rights Council demanded Tuesday that Russia provide access to and information about Ukrainian children and other civilians forcibly transferred to territory under its control.
The top UN rights body passed a resolution demanding that Moscow "cease the unlawful forced transfer and deportation of civilians and other protected persons within Ukraine or to the Russian Federation."
Tuesday's resolution, which also prolonged for another year a high-level investigation into violations committed in the context of Russia's war in Ukraine, demanded that Russia provide access to all those transferred. And it called for "reliable and comprehensive information about the number and the whereabouts of these civilians, and ensure their dignified treatment and their safe return."
The high-level Commission of Inquiry, established by the council a year ago to investigate abuses since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 202, concluded in its first report last month that the forced transfers of Ukrainian children amounted to a war crime.
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