“With the Delegation of Ukrainian Women leaders to the United Nations we attended the General Assembly gathering and CSW Forum and appealed at the United Nations to the global audience for peace in Ukraine and support for humanitarian action. We stressed landmine contamination in Ukraine, which needs the support of the international community.

40% of Ukrainians need humanitarian aid. 8 thousand Ukrainians died and 13 thousand were wounded. 15,000 are missing.

954 children were injured. 487 children died. 16,000 were deported to the Russian Federation (official data). 450,000 children were deported (unofficial data).

250,000 km of the territory of Ukraine is contaminated with landmines.

20% of Ukrainians left the country, and almost another 20% became forced migrants into their own country.

144 thousand of them are people with disabilities.

40% of Ukrainians (18 million) need humanitarian aid.

3,075 out of 14,000 educational institutions were destroyed or damaged.

438 destroyed.

Every sixth school in the East of Ukraine suffered significantly.

Together with Svitlana Salamatova – President of the Geopolitical Alliance of Women, Head of the Ukrainian Women in the UN Project, Co-founder of ICA Ukraine, Head of the independent delegation of Ukrainian women in the UN, I organized the Parallel Event during the NGOCSW Forum assisting the Sixty-Seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in United Nations: „Young Change Makers – Future Moral Leaders with the Global Goals Spirit.”

The independent delegation of Ukrainian women to the United Nations together with global humanitarian leaders, diplomats, philanthropists, young change-makers, and internationally recognized peace activists appealed for peace and humanitarian assistance.

The independent delegation of Ukrainian women to the United Nations stressed the violations of human rights and the number of children killed and maimed in Ukraine. They also spoke about the inhumane weapons – landmines that are spread all over the country. The biggest landmine threat since World War II, a minefield of 250,000 square kilometers, is in Ukraine, making it “the largest minefield in the world.”

Special words of thanks were also addressed to all the Polish people who opened their hearts and helped millions of Ukrainian women and children who fled the hell of war.

On March 13th my dearest partner Svitlana Salamatova spoke about landmine contamination and the humanitarian situation in Ukraine at the General Assembly and asked the questions to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.”

– Angelika Jarosławska Sapieha