Minister Anand announces additional sanctions in response to Russia’s violations against Ukrainian children
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At today’s High-Level Meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children in Brussels, Belgium, the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that Canada is imposing additional sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations in response to the Russian government’s violations of Ukrainian children’s rights.

Canada … is sanctioning an additional 23 individuals and five entities involved in the violations against Ukrainian children. These measures build on the sanctions Canada has already imposed. Canada has sanctioned over 80 individuals and entities for their involvement in violations of the rights of Ukrainian children in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Those sanctioned include Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, as well as regional commissioners and other individuals responsible for the unlawful deportation and forcible transfer of children, including their indoctrination and militarization. Sanctioned entities include government-affiliated and other organizations involved in these violations.

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  • In the context of its war of aggression against Ukraine, the Russian government has unlawfully deported Ukrainian children to its territory and forcibly transferred others within the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as documented by international bodies, including the International Criminal Court. Thousands of these children remain in Russia, away from their families and communities.

  • As co-chair of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, Canada is working closely with Ukraine and partner states and organizations to address the issue of the unlawful deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia. So far, approximately 2,100 children have been successfully returned, but it is estimated that thousands of them remain in Russia and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

  • Since 2014, Canada has imposed sanctions on more than 3,400 individuals and entities that are complicit in the violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and in gross and systematic human rights violations.

  • Ironfist@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    weird how trolls like you don’t apply this logic to Israel or the US. Why does Canada sanction neither of them?

    Lets ignore for a moment the deflection you are doing bringing up Israel and the US for some reason, the childish name calling and the projection… I actually think Canada should, what Israel is doing is appalling and the U.S is clearly not our ally (or anybodies but Putins).

    Now lets go back to the part where you were defending children being kidnapped… seriously wtf is wrong with you?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’m not deflecting anything here. I’m pointing out the obvious double standard in how Canada approaches Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel invasion of Lebanon along with the destruction of Gaza or US attack on Iran.

      Now lets go back to the part where you were defending children being kidnapped… seriously wtf is wrong with you?

      Evidently you lack the intellect to understand sarcasm. I was making contrast between a literal genocide where Israel murders children by the thousand and Canada puts no sanctions on Israel, and Russia moving children out of the war zone which we are prosecuting with sanctions. Let me know if this is still unclear to you and you need me to use smaller words to accommodate for your evident cognitive deficiencies.