cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31273590

Democratic U.S. lawmakers will call on President Donald Trump’s administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and to use sanctions to punish those responsible for the rights violation.

As it slashes a wide range of U.S. government programs and most foreign aid, the Republican president’s administration has ended a government-funded initiative led by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (Yale HRL) that tracked the mass deportation of children from Ukraine, the lawmakers said.

That decision meant researchers have lost access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and other data, about some 30,000 children taken from Ukraine.

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