War, Torture, and Children
Journal: Beijing Law Review
Year: 2025

Russia’s large-scale deportation, torture, and forced assimilation of Ukrainian children is one of the starkest violations of modern international law and child-rights norms, and its gravity becomes clearer when we follow the thread of law as a continuous story rather than a list of provisions. Children have been singled out from the earliest codifications of humanitarian law for “special respect.” The Fourth Geneva Convention, drafted in the aftermath of the Second World War, treats the forcibl