{"id":2787,"date":"2023-05-25T07:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childrights.org.ua\/news\/the-ukrainian-child-rights-network-facilitated-the-return-home-of-a-14-year-old-girl-from-kharkiv-who-was-taken-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T10:29:34","slug":"the-ukrainian-child-rights-network-facilitated-the-return-home-of-a-14-year-old-girl-from-kharkiv-who-was-taken-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/childrights.org.ua\/en\/news\/the-ukrainian-child-rights-network-facilitated-the-return-home-of-a-14-year-old-girl-from-kharkiv-who-was-taken-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ukrainian Child Rights Network&#8221; facilitated the return home of a 14-year-old girl from Kharkiv who was taken to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Ukrainian Child Rights Network together with the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine and the Office of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">returned another Ukrainian child to his or her homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14-year-old Veronika, who found herself in Russia after Ukraine was invaded by a terrorist country, is now back home. The grandmother had to go through a difficult and dangerous journey to return her granddaughter to her native land. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Ukrainian Child Rights Network <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">journalists from an international media corporation contacted us and received information about the child&#8217;s removal from Kharkiv to the territory of the Russian Federation, where she was placed in a center for social and psychological assistance. The child was taken there by a relative because of her loyalty to the aggressor country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Network&#8217;s staff talked to the girl&#8217;s mother and received her consent to return her daughter. It was decided that her grandmother would go for her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We met with the grandmother at the office of the Ukrainian Child Rights Network, she told us about her granddaughter, and we developed a logistical plan, \u2014<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says <\/span><b>Daria Kasyanova, <\/b>\u2014 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chairman of the board of the organization, national program director of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SOS Children&#8217;s Villages Ukraine&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The network paid for the woman&#8217;s tickets to Moscow, and for her and the girl&#8217;s tickets in the opposite direction. All this time, we were in contact with Veronika&#8217;s grandmother &#8211; we accompanied her on this difficult trip.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;The grandmother recalls with horror and tears what she had to go through to bring her granddaughter back to her native land&#8221;, \u2014<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/surl.li\/hgsmh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> recalls <\/span><\/a>\u00a0<b>Dmytro Lubinets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each case of returning abducted children is, without exaggeration, a whole special operation that requires coordination of efforts of the state and public organizations &#8211; all those who can help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We worked together with the <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories and the Ombudsman&#8217;s Office, \u2014<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0says <\/span><b>Daria Kasyanova. <\/b>\u2014<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All steps and actions to return the deported children are kept quiet. And even after they are at home, not all information can be made public: we need to take care of the safety of their families, relatives who are still in the occupation, and not to harm the efforts to take other children from the enemy territories.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><b>Dmytro Lubinets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Veronika will undergo rehabilitation and receive the necessary assistance: both medical and humanitarian, as well as tools to facilitate education in her native language. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are working to bring home every Ukrainian child and punish those who take them away and hold them hostage on foreign territory&#8221;,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/surl.li\/hgsmh\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">emphasized the <\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ombudsman emphasized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia or the territories temporarily occupied by the aggressor, the following have been taken <\/span><b>19,486 children have been deported<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and returned from deportation <\/span><b>369 children<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is the information <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenofwar.gov.ua\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the website &#8220;Children of War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as of May 25, 2023. Specialists &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ukrainian Child Rights Network&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contributed to the return of many children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, in partnership with<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savethechildren.net\/what-we-do\/emergencies\/ukraine-crisis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Save the Children in Ukraine<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we are launching a special project to return children abducted by the enemy <\/span><b>&#8220;THE WAY HOME&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Follow our publications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, you can support the project with a donation &#8211; the return of deported children requires and will continue to require considerable resources, including financial ones: follow the link <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/childrights.org.ua\/pidtrymaty-nas\/\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/childrights.org.ua\/pidtrymaty-nas\/<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#The Way Home <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2627,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"news_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2787","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Ukrainian Child Rights Network&quot; 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