“Children in Ukraine’s “baby homes” and “orphanages” (referred to in this report as “institutions”) have at least one living parent or extended family. Children are placed in these facilities because of the poverty of the family or the lack of support for children with disabilities to live in the community. Children from Roma families, who are subject to widespread prejudice and often excluded from schools, are also heavily over-represented. Placements could have been prevented if protections for families and support in the community had been established. The current dangers faced by children in Ukraine’s institutions are vastly increased by the failure to protect families and ensure community inclusion of all children. A family caring for one child with a disability can usually get out of harm’s way. It is much more difficult to evacuate an entire institution of children or adults with significant support needs.” ILO, Three Essential Questions: Interview with Réka Sáfrány, President of European Women's Lobby, 15 September 2021 "Thinking about a job-rich economic recovery in CEE, who are the most vulnerable women on the labour market, and what can be done to avoid that they are once again left behind? Women and girls with disabilities, older women, women with underlying health conditions, and women impacted by prostitution, women from ethnic minorities, especially Roma, and migration status are some of the groups of women too often left on the margins of society. The long-term consequences of the pandemic will also impact young women." UNHCR, Community mobilization, 2020 "Among the 122 IDP communities, seven represented ethnic minorities (Crimean Tatars and Roma), 18 focused their activities on persons with a disability, and 25 worked with children, while nine communities focused on youth, and eight conducted activities in support to the elderly." (Romani) children and unaccompanied minors Disability Rights International, Left Behind in the War: Dangers Facing Children with Disabilities In Ukraine’s Orphanages, 5 May 2022 “Children in Ukraine’s “baby homes” and “orphanages” (referred to in this report as “institutions”) have at least one living parent or extended family. Children are placed in these facilities because of the poverty of the family or the lack of support for children with disabilities to live in the community. Children from Roma families, who are subject to widespread prejudice and often excluded from schools, are also heavily over-represented. Placements could have been prevented if protections for families and support in the community had been established. The current dangers faced by children in Ukraine’s institutions are vastly increased by the failure to protect families and ensure community inclusion of all children. A family caring for one child with a disability can usually get out of harm’s way. It is much more difficult to evacuate an entire institution of children or adults with significant support needs. […] Observations at Institution #3 Director said that they were in a richer institution before that. “They had flat a screen TV there, We don’t here.” Most of the men at this facility do not even seem to have an intellectual disability. They are incorrectly diagnosed. And now these diagnosis will follow-them for a lifetime, limiting their movement, depriving them of opportunity, and opening them up to discrimination. Based on our interaction with them, noting how they speak and how they engage with people, they have good adaptive behaviors. There was an overrepresentation of children of Roma descent. […]The country may be at war, but life is going on.” 42