HRES 149 — Condemning the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

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149 CondemningIn the illegalHouse abduction of childrenRepresentatives, fromU. Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

_______________________________________________________________________S., INMarch THE19, HOUSE2024. OF REPRESENTATIVES February 21, 2023 Ms.

WildWhereas, (foron herself,January Mrs.12, 1951, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (commonly known as the ``Genocide Convention''), of which the Russian Federation is a party, came into effect;

Wagner,Whereas, andon Ms.February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation escalated its eight-year- long occupation of sovereign Ukrainian territory by launching an unprovoked large-scale invasion of Ukraine;

Slotkin)Whereas, submittedon March 9, 2022, Russian Forces attacked a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, resulting in the followingdeaths resolution;of 5 individuals and injuries to 17 other individuals;

whichWhereas, wason referredMarch to22, 2022, the CommitteeUkrainian on Foreign AffairsMinistry _______________________________________________________________________announced RESOLUTIONthat Condemning the illegalRussian abductionmilitary ofhad illegally abducted and forcibly transferred 2,389 Ukrainian children from Ukrainetemporarily tooccupied theareas Russianof Federation.Ukraine;

Whereas, on JanuaryJune 12,2, 1951,2022, theUkrainian ConventionPresident onVolodymyr theZelenskyy Preventionstated andthat Punishment200,000 ofchildren theare Crimeamong of Genocide (commonly known as the ``GenocideUkrainians Convention''),who ofhave whichbeen theforcibly Russiantransferred Federationto isRussia; a signatory, came into effect;

Whereas, on February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation renewed their illegal and unprovoked large-scale invasion of Ukraine;

Whereas, on March 9, 2022, Russian Forces attacked a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of 3 individuals and injuries to 17 other individuals;

Whereas, on March 22, 2022, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced that the Russian military had forcefully and illegally kidnapped 2,389 Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine;

Whereas, on June 2, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that 200,000 children are among the Ukrainians who have been forcefully resettled in Russia;

Whereas Maria Lvova-Belova, Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of Russia, admitted to kidnappingabducting and forcibly transferring Ukrainian children and facilitating forced adoptions to Russian families;

Whereas Ukrainian authorities have stated that a number of the kidnappedabducted and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children have families who remain in Ukraine, but have been separated due to the renewed Russian invasion;

Whereas, on June 22, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner has verified at that at least 320 children have been killed since Russia's renewed invasion began;

Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives-- (1) holdsdeclares thethat Government of the Russianabduction Federation,and underforcible thetransfer leadership of Vladimirchildren Putin,and responsiblefacilitation forof the wrongful and illegal kidnappingadoptions ofis childrencontrary fromto UkraineRussia's andobligations officiallyunder condemnsthe theseGenocide actionsConvention inand theamounts strongestto terms;genocide;

(2) further declares that the facilitationRussian Federation is attempting to wipe out a generation of illegalUkrainian adoptionschildren, isthereby contrarycrippling toUkraine's Russia'sability obligationsto undernurture the Genocidenext Conventiongeneration of Ukrainian citizens and amountsleaders and to genocide;rebuild their country after Russia's unprovoked war, with the purpose of demolishing Ukraine's unique language, culture, history, and identity;

(3) claimsnotes with concern that the Russianinvasion Federation is attempting to wipe out a generation of UkrainianUkraine children,by therebythe cripplingRussian Ukraine'sFederation abilityhas tosignificantly nurtureincreased the nextrisks generation of Ukrainianchildren citizensbeing andexposed leadersto andhuman totrafficking rebuildand theirexploitation, countrychild afterlabor, Russia'sgender-based unprovokedviolence, war,hunger, withinjury, thetrauma, purposedeprivation of demolishingeducation Ukraine'sand uniqueshelter, language, culture, history, and identity;death;

and (4) assertsholds that the invasionGovernment of Ukraine by the Russian FederationFederation, hasunder significantly increased the risksleadership of childrenVladimir beingPutin, exposedresponsible tofor humanthe traffickingwrongful and exploitation,illegal childabduction labor,and gender-basedforcible violence,transfer hunger,of injury,children trauma,from deprivationUkraine ofand educationofficially andcondemns shelter,these andactions death.in the strongest terms.

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