The statement comes after a BBC News investigation uncovered widespread abuse in orphanages.
Disabled children are being abused and neglected in institutions across Ukraine, UN experts have warned.
The UN experts say that they were left without any appropriate support, putting them at risk of further abuse, a life on the streets or becoming victims to trafficking. There was, and still is, a belief by many in Ukrainian society that disabled children receive better care in an institution.The BBC met this teenager, suffering from severe malnourishment, during our investigation in June
"It is time to act, to press a reset button to the future. In doing that we need a clear commitment from the Ukrainian government to end its system of institutionalisation." In one institution we met 18-year-old Vasyl Velychko, who was tied to a bench and left to rock back and forth for hours, screaming.They wanted to take him home, but a lack of support in the community had left them with no choice but to give him up at the age of five.His institution was just one of many which had accepted disabled children who were fleeing the fighting in the east.
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