From left, member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Philip Jaffe, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Ann Skelton, and Vice-Chair Bragi Gudbrandsson, present its findings on Bulgaria, Congo, Lithuania, Russia, Senegal and South Africa, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on children's human rights called Thursday on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government's “political and military agenda,” including over the war in Ukraine. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
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