📣 Campaign: “Where There Is Listening, Peace Is Born” – protecting children
🎯 Aim
To raise international awareness of the deportation of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation, to promote the protection of children’s rights and to create a space for dialogue between adults and children, between Ukraine and Italy.
An initiative of the Department of Strategic Communications
of the National Congress of Ukrainian Associations in Italy
( an international cooperation organisation)
🗓️ Campaign stages
🔹 Stage 1
Online conference – “Stolen Rights”
Date
20 November (World Children’s Day)
Format
International webinar
Participants:
– Experts in human rights and international law
– Representatives of the Department of Strategic Communications
– Psychologists, teachers, activists
– Testimonies from affected Ukrainian families
Content:
– Presentation of data on deportations and rights violations
– Legal analysis: crimes against children
– The psychological and cultural impact on childhood
– Advocacy strategies and international pressure
Conference slogan:
“Robbed of their childhood. Defended by our conscience.”
🔹 Stage 2
Open lesson – “Every Child Matters”
Date
21 November
Venue
Ukrainian and Italian schools (in person and online)
Participants:
– Pupils of Ukrainian and Italian schools
– Teachers and facilitators
– International observers
Activities:
– Reading the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
– Creative workshops: drawings, letters, poems
– An exchange of messages between Ukrainian and Italian children
– Creating a “Wall of Hope” with thoughts and wishes
Educational aim:
To help children understand the value of rights, solidarity and living memory.
💬 Key message
“Every child has the right to grow up free, loved and protected. When a child is torn from their homeland, all of humanity loses a part of its future.”
