The U.S. State Department recently terminated funding aimed at tracking thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, impacting critical evidence preservation efforts. This cessation followed an executive order issued by President Trump that nearly froze all foreign aid. The congressionally organized letter, highlighting these concerns, suggests that possible deletion of a database containing vital information about these abducted children could have dire consequences for their recovery efforts. The Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab was involved in this work, which began in 2022 under the Conflict Observatory program, funded by Congress.
The work on the abducted children by the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab was frozen when President Trump signed an executive order in late January halting almost all foreign aid spending.
The congressional letter, organized by Representative Greg Landsman, Democrat of Ohio, said the foreign aid freeze has jeopardized, and may ultimately eliminate, our informational support of Ukraine on this front.
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