Pennsylvania SR 345: A Resolution designating the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.

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PRINTER'S NO. 1861
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No. 345
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, PENNYCUICK, COLLETT, HAYWOOD, MASTRIANO
AND HUGHES, JUNE 26, 2026
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, JUNE 26, 2026
A RESOLUTION
Condemning the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine,
including the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of
Ukrainian children to Russia.
WHEREAS, On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation
escalated its eight-year-long occupation of sovereign Ukrainian
territory by launching an unprovoked large-scale invasion of
Ukraine; and
WHEREAS, On March 9, 2022, Russian forces attacked a
maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, resulting in the deaths
of five individuals and injuries to 17 other individuals; and
WHEREAS, Forcibly transferring children of one group to
another group is a violation of Article II(e) of the Genocide
Convention; and
WHEREAS, Maria Lvova-Belova, children's rights commissioner
for the president of Russia, admitted to abducting and forcibly
transferring Ukrainian children and facilitating forced
adoptions to Russian families; and
WHEREAS, Ukrainian authorities have stated that a number of
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the abducted and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children have
families who remain in Ukraine but have been separated due to
the renewed Russian invasion; and
WHEREAS, On June 16, 2022, Russian authorities announced that
children born in occupied Ukrainian territories after the
February 24, 2022, invasion will be deemed Russian citizens; and
WHEREAS, On July 11, 2022, United Nations Secretary-General
António Guterres ordered an investigation into the deaths and
injuries of Ukrainian children; and
WHEREAS, On July 13, 2022, then Secretary of State Antony J.
Blinken issued a statement calling upon Russia to "immediately
halt its systemic filtration operations in Ukraine," which have
caused the disappearance, detention or forcible deportation of
between 900,000 and 1,600,000 Ukrainians; and
WHEREAS, On February 14, 2023, a report by the Yale
Humanitarian Research Lab identified at least 32 facilities in
Russian-occupied Crimea or Russia involved in systematic
academic, cultural, patriotic and/or military re-education of
Ukrainian children; and
WHEREAS, On January 25, 2025, then chairman of the United
States House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael T. McCaul stated
that more than 260,000 children have been abducted by Russia,
citing United States intelligence estimates; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate condemn the actions of the Russian
Federation in Ukraine, including the illegal abduction and
forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That the Senate declare that the abduction and
forcible transfer of children and facilitation of illegal
adoptions is contrary to Russia's obligations under the Genocide
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Convention and amounts to genocide; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Senate declare that the Russian Federation
is attempting to wipe out a generation of Ukrainian children,
thereby crippling Ukraine's ability to nurture the next
generation of Ukrainian citizens and leaders and to rebuild
their country after Russia's unprovoked war, with the purpose of
demolishing Ukraine's unique language, culture, history and
identity; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Senate note with concern that the invasion
of Ukraine by the Russian Federation has significantly increased
the risks of children being exposed to human trafficking and
exploitation, child labor, gender-based violence, hunger,
injury, trauma, deprivation of education and shelter and death;
and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Senate hold the Government of the Russian
Federation, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, responsible
for the wrongful and illegal abduction, forcible transfer and
subsequent illegal adoption and indoctrination of children from
Ukraine and officially condemn these actions in the strongest
terms.
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