A/HRC/RES/58/24 Russian Federation, which are war crimes, as well as at the information collected by and reported on by the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine that children have been deported individually or in groups to Belarus, and strongly condemning the separation of families and of children from legal guardians, any subsequent change of children’s personal status, adoption or placement in foster families, and efforts to indoctrinate them, Recalling the investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court into the situation in Ukraine, and noting the issuance by its Pre-Trial Chamber II of arrest warrants for two individuals on 17 March 2023 for the alleged war crimes of “unlawful deportation of population (children)” and “unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation”, and for four other individuals on 5 March 2024 and 24 June 2024 for the alleged war crimes of “directing attacks at civilian objects” and “causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects”, and for the alleged crime against humanity of “other inhumane acts … intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health”, Expressing concern about the intensified militarization and assimilation of children and young people in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, including combat training of children and young people for military service in the Russian armed forces, as well as the introduction of a “military-patriotic” education system, while at the same time blocking access to Ukrainian education, Condemning the incitement of hatred against Ukraine, Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, as well as the dissemination of disinformation seeking to justify the war of aggression against Ukraine by the Russian Federation, including through the education system and youth policy, and condemning also the imposition of the compulsory use of the Russian official curriculum in and the exclusion of the Ukrainian official curriculum from school programmes with a view to erasing Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian language in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Expressing grave concern that the temporary control or occupation by the Russian Federation continues to affect the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights by residents, including children, women, older persons, persons with disabilities and other persons in vulnerable and marginalized situations, Condemning the imposition and retroactive application of the legal system of the Russian Federation and its negative impact on the situation of human rights, including in the temporarily controlled or occupied territories of Ukraine, the imposition of citizenship of the Russian Federation on protected persons, contrary to international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions and customary international law, and the deportation, regressive effects on the enjoyment of human rights and effective restriction of land ownership of those who have rejected that citizenship, Expressing deep concern at consistent reports that the Russian Federation promotes policies and conducts practices aimed at changing the demographic, including ethnic, structure in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and the suppression of national identity, Expressing deep concern also at the situation of persons with disabilities and of older persons, recognizing the urgent need to measure the effects of the conflict on their situations and to take enhanced measures to ensure their protection during conflict, and noting the importance of ensuring the full, equal and meaningful participation of persons with disabilities and older persons and their representative organizations in all stages of the peace continuum, Stressing the urgent need for the Russian Federation to immediately stop its war of aggression against Ukraine, to withdraw its troops from Ukraine and to cease its military hostilities against Ukraine and for Belarus to immediately cease its support for these hostilities, Stressing also the urgent need for the prioritization of the protection of civilians, including those displaced, and civilian objects and for full, timely, immediate, unhindered and safe humanitarian access, and demanding that the parties respect human rights and fully 4

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