Russian President Vladmir Putin with Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova. (AP)
A panel of UN-backed experts that focuses on children’s human rights called Thursday on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government’s “political and military agenda”, including over the war in Ukraine.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child held two days of hearings in Geneva last month before presenting its findings on conditions in Russia. The examination was part of a regular review that all UN member countries receive.
The 18-member committee of independent experts last examined Russia’s record on children’s rights a decade ago.
The panel also urged the Russia government to investigate war crime allegations against President Vladimir Putin’s commissioner for children’s rights.
Russian officials attended the committee’s January 22-23 hearings, and the Russia’s mission in Geneva said Moscow would respond to the report.
