Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children
A child looks out from a carriage window as a train prepares to depart from a station in Lviv, western Ukraine, enroute to the town of Uzhhorod near the border with Slovakia, on March 3, 2022. - Russian forces have taken over the Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials confirmed March 2, 2022 the first major urban centre to fall since Moscow invaded a week ago.
The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding, HRL will shut down on July 1, 2025. Donate now to ensure this critical work continues.
With your help, HRL can:
- Identify and track more than 35,000 children taken from Ukraine to over 100 locations in Russia and Russia-occupied territory;
- Investigate Russia’s illegal adoption and military training of these abducted Ukrainian children; and
- Accelerate real-time efforts by Ukraine’s government to return these abducted children home.
Over the past 3 years, HRL:
- Exposed Russia’s systematic program to abduct and conceal Ukraine’s children;
- Identified thousands of children taken to Russia;
- Aided law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and NGOs in identifying and rescuing Ukraine’s children and holding perpetrators accountable; and
- Catalyzed ICC arrest warrants for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova on the abduction of Ukraine’s children and the U.S. Atrocity Determination that Russia committed Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine.
Your generosity will ensure that HRL can continue this essential work around the world.