On July 24, 2024, a meeting of the TSC on Protection of IDPs’ Rights was held
Published on 24 July 2024, at 19:05
At the meeting of the parliamentary TSC on the protection of the rights of IDPs and other persons, measures to support Ukrainian refugees abroad, the issue of protecting the right to education of Ukrainian children and youth who are IDPs or staying in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as ways to increase the effectiveness of providing monetary assistance to victims were discussed from the state and international humanitarian organizations.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are 7.7 million Ukrainians abroad (UNHCR estimates this number at more than 6 million), which is even more than officially registered IDPs in Ukraine.
In order to strengthen the protection of the rights of our refugees, reduce queues and increase the availability of consular services, TSC proposed to increase the number of consular employees in the countries with the largest number of displaced Ukrainians, speed up the digitization and automation of consular service processes.
TSK initiated the development of the State Strategy for the return of refugees to Ukraine and the preservation of ties with Ukraine for those Ukrainians who will remain abroad. This is extremely important, because even according to the International Labor Organization, for the post-war reconstruction and reconstruction of Ukraine, we need to recruit about 8 million new workers.
In order to protect the education rights of Ukrainian children abroad, the TSC established the Ministry of Education, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to carry out work on the opening of public, Saturday/Sunday Ukrainian schools abroad, to provide them with textbooks, to achieve the inclusion of the Ukrainian language in the list of languages of choice for learning as a second foreign language in the countries of Europe, the training of teachers who will be able to teach the language of the host country not as a native language, but as a foreign one for our students, and also to create a separate budget program for this purpose.
Applicants under the age of 25 who have graduated from school abroad should be given the opportunity to enter a Ukrainian university without the need to apply to the TCC and be registered as a conscript.
Ukrainian children abroad should be offered integration and adaptation, not assimilation!
The provision of Ministry of Education order No. 850 regarding the forced transfer of IDP students to full-time education, if there is such an opportunity in their places of residence, was deemed unacceptable.
They offered the Prime Minister to urgently fill the distance learning platform "All-Ukrainian School Online" with video lessons for obtaining education on all curricula, topics, subjects and for all classes.
University admission rules must be approved and published not in March or April, but by January 1 of the year of admission.
Among the important provisions of the TSC decision on the protection of children and youth in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and IDPs - on the need to preserve the right of students and their parents to choose the form of education (distance, distance with a Ukrainian studies component, individual, etc.), recognition of results and period of study in educational institutions of the occupied territories for continuing education in a Ukrainian school, conducting free education of youth with TOT with the payment of a scholarship and continuing education in Ukrainian higher education institutions, as well as support for the education centers "Crimea-Ukraine" and "Donbas-Ukraine", which help youth with TOT to enter the Ukrainian universities
In order to increase the effectiveness of the provision of monetary assistance to IDPs and other victims from the state and international humanitarian organizations, it was proposed to identify responsible officials in the ministries and regional military administrations for interaction with the Working Group on the provision of monetary assistance and international and national humanitarian organizations in order to strengthen communication on an operational basis. tactical and strategic levels.
In order to optimize the targeting of monetary assistance to the most vulnerable categories of affected Ukrainians and to avoid cases of its duplication, communication and exchange of information will be introduced between representatives of international and national humanitarian organizations and the state authorities of Ukraine, as well as verification of applicants receiving monetary assistance for compliance with the established criteria and conditions granting.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are 7.7 million Ukrainians abroad (UNHCR estimates this number at more than 6 million), which is even more than officially registered IDPs in Ukraine.
In order to strengthen the protection of the rights of our refugees, reduce queues and increase the availability of consular services, TSC proposed to increase the number of consular employees in the countries with the largest number of displaced Ukrainians, speed up the digitization and automation of consular service processes.
TSK initiated the development of the State Strategy for the return of refugees to Ukraine and the preservation of ties with Ukraine for those Ukrainians who will remain abroad. This is extremely important, because even according to the International Labor Organization, for the post-war reconstruction and reconstruction of Ukraine, we need to recruit about 8 million new workers.
In order to protect the education rights of Ukrainian children abroad, the TSC established the Ministry of Education, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to carry out work on the opening of public, Saturday/Sunday Ukrainian schools abroad, to provide them with textbooks, to achieve the inclusion of the Ukrainian language in the list of languages of choice for learning as a second foreign language in the countries of Europe, the training of teachers who will be able to teach the language of the host country not as a native language, but as a foreign one for our students, and also to create a separate budget program for this purpose.
Applicants under the age of 25 who have graduated from school abroad should be given the opportunity to enter a Ukrainian university without the need to apply to the TCC and be registered as a conscript.
Ukrainian children abroad should be offered integration and adaptation, not assimilation!
The provision of Ministry of Education order No. 850 regarding the forced transfer of IDP students to full-time education, if there is such an opportunity in their places of residence, was deemed unacceptable.
They offered the Prime Minister to urgently fill the distance learning platform "All-Ukrainian School Online" with video lessons for obtaining education on all curricula, topics, subjects and for all classes.
University admission rules must be approved and published not in March or April, but by January 1 of the year of admission.
Among the important provisions of the TSC decision on the protection of children and youth in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and IDPs - on the need to preserve the right of students and their parents to choose the form of education (distance, distance with a Ukrainian studies component, individual, etc.), recognition of results and period of study in educational institutions of the occupied territories for continuing education in a Ukrainian school, conducting free education of youth with TOT with the payment of a scholarship and continuing education in Ukrainian higher education institutions, as well as support for the education centers "Crimea-Ukraine" and "Donbas-Ukraine", which help youth with TOT to enter the Ukrainian universities
In order to increase the effectiveness of the provision of monetary assistance to IDPs and other victims from the state and international humanitarian organizations, it was proposed to identify responsible officials in the ministries and regional military administrations for interaction with the Working Group on the provision of monetary assistance and international and national humanitarian organizations in order to strengthen communication on an operational basis. tactical and strategic levels.
In order to optimize the targeting of monetary assistance to the most vulnerable categories of affected Ukrainians and to avoid cases of its duplication, communication and exchange of information will be introduced between representatives of international and national humanitarian organizations and the state authorities of Ukraine, as well as verification of applicants receiving monetary assistance for compliance with the established criteria and conditions granting.