The Committee on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism upholds the bill on amendments to several laws of Ukraine re strengthening children's rights protection

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
06 August 2014, 11:01


The bill (Reg. No. 4100a) stipulates that men who support three or more children under 18 years of age; women who support children under 18 years of age; women and men who independently raise a child (children) under 18 years of age; women and men who support a disabled child (children) of group I or II under 23 years of age should be granted a deferred military service during mobilization.     

As it was mentioned during the discussion, adoption of the bill will promote children's rights protection during a special period by granting deferred military service to some categories of parents who do not have such deferments according to the current legislation.