For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours ! - CSO
Our communication to the International Criminal Court
Article 15 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court provides for the possibility for a civil society entity to transmit a communication and evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC. The purpose of such communications is to inform the Office of the Prosecutor that acts that may be characterized as crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC have been committed or are being committed.
We have submitted two communications to the ICC, one in December 2022 to report the crimes of illegal transfer of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation, the second in September 2024 to show the involvement of United Russia, Vladimir Putin's party.
Our second communication implicates members of United Russia, Vladimir Putin's party. We call for arrest warrants to be issued against them.
The first association to alert public opinion and the French government to the deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children in Russia, Pour l'Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nous! filed a communication with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in December 2022, which contributed to the issuance of arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, his "Children's Rights Commissioner" for acts then described as "war crimes".
His lawyers, Emmanuel Daoud and Gabriel Sebbah, filed a second communication in September 2024 documenting the scale of the crimes committed against Ukrainian minors. It reveals the extent of the network of complicity, which largely involves the United Russia (RU) party, and calls on the ICC to extend its warrants to other senior officials and to reclassify these crimes in order to increase judicial pressure on the
Russian power.
Our first communication, before the arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova for the war crime of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children
Article 15 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court provides for the possibility for a civil society entity to transmit a communication and evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC. These communications are intended to inform the Office of the Prosecutor that facts that may be characterized as crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC have been committed or are being committed.
With the help of the online media Humanities, we have investigated open sources and continue to collect evidence and data on deported children.