EP - Recommendations to the EU on the reform of Ukraine's child protection and care system
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Recommendations to the EU on the reform of Ukraine’s child protection and care system
Launch event
24th June 2025
17:30-19:30
MEP Salon, European Parliament, Brussels
Agenda
Welcome (5-10 minutes)
- Welcome by Host, Hristo Petrov MEP
- VP Ewa Kopacz MEP, European Parliament Coordinator on Children’s Rights (invited)
Presentation of civil society Recommendations (10-15 minutes)
- Representatives from Lumos and Hope and Homes for Children Ukraine, on behalf of the Ukraine International Advocacy Task Force:
- Natalia Shygonska, Lumos Ukraine
- Halyna Postoliuk, Hope and Homes for Children Ukraine - Short comment from Anastasiia Stepula, Ukrainian Child Rights Network
Brief interventions (3-5 minutes each)
- Representative from the European Commission DG ENEST (TBC)
- Marie-Cécile Rouillon, European Commission Coordinator for the Rights of the Child (invited)
- H.E. Iryna Postolovska, Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine for European Integration
- Iryna Tuliakova, Head of the Coordination Center for Family Upbringing and Child Care Development, Ukraine
- Kyrylo Nevdokha, Head of the Office of Children and Youth “DIyMO” at the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine
- Regina De Dominicis, Regional Director, Europe and Central Asia, UNICEF (invited)
- H.E. Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG, Ambassador and Head of the UK Mission to the EU, or a representative (invited)
- H.E. Carsten Grønbech-Jensen, Permanent Representative of Denmark to the EU, or a representative (invited)
Moderator: Enrique Restoy, Director of Programmes, Lumos
Networking reception from around 18:30–19:30
MEP event
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