Mass child deportations: Russia seeks to ‘eradicate Ukrainian identity, history, and entire country’

François Picard is very pleased to welcome Mariam Lambert, Co‑Founder and CEO of the Emile Foundation, to share her life’s work, “providing a better future for vulnerable children across the globe”. Her current focus is on Ukraine as her team confronts one of the darkest and least visible dimensions of Russia’s brutal invasion: the forced removal and deportation of Ukrainian children. Founded in 2011 as an international charitable organisation, Emile’s mandate evolved in 2023 to focus directly on the repatriation and reintegration of Ukrainian minors who have been removed from their families and forcibly sent to Russian territory. Ms. Lambert joins us following President Zelensky’s address to the United Nations drawing renewed attention to Russia’s mass deportation of children as a weapon of war.