A panel of experts supported by the United Nations has called on Russia to prevent the rewriting of school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government's political and military agenda, particularly in relation to the war in Ukraine. The Committee on the Rights of the Child recently conducted hearings in Geneva as part of its regular review of all UN member countries.
During the hearings, Bragi Gudbrandsson, the vice chair of the committee, highlighted the indiscriminate attacks carried out by Russia in Ukraine, resulting in the killing and injuring of hundreds of children. He also mentioned measures taken to strip deported Ukrainian children of their nationality and grant them Russian citizenship. According to Ukrainian government sources, approximately 20,000 children have been forcibly deported, although obtaining an accurate count has proven challenging. Russia has denied these claims.
