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In Washington, Emile Foundation Presents FOUND. NOT HOME., Its First Investigation Report
Last week in Washington, Emile Foundation presented FOUND. NOT HOME. — our first independent humanitarian investigation report — alongside testimony from the mothers and a grandmother still searching for the children and grandchild taken from them.
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Finding a Child Isn’t Enough — Why Emile Foundation Brings Their Families to Safety Too
Most organizations working on Ukraine’s abducted children stop once a child has been traced, located, and identified. That moment is treated as the finish line. At the Emile Foundation, it is treated as the halfway point.
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TEDx New Delhi: Speaking for Ukraine’s Abducted Children
Emile Foundation CEO Mariam Lambert recently took the stage at TEDx New Delhi to speak about one of the gravest human rights violations of Russia’s war in Ukraine: the forced deportation of Ukrainian children.
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Emile Foundation Opens Permanent Office in Kyiv
This week, the Emile Foundation opened a new chapter with the opening of our permanent office in Kyiv.
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Emile Foundation Locates 46 of 84 Children Taken from Oleshky Boarding School
New investigation by Emile Foundation identifies dozens of vulnerable Ukrainians still living under Russian control and reveals the legal barriers preventing their return home.
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Emile Foundation on the Main Stage at GLOBSEC 2026
Speaking at the GLOBSEC Forum 2026 in Prague, Mariam Lambert, CEO & Co-Founder of the Emile Foundation, reminded us of the faces behind this horrible tragedy.
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Mariam Lambert Receives the Ingrid zu Solms Human Rights Award 2026
The Emile Foundation is proud to announce that our CEO and Co-Founder, Mariam Lambert, has been awarded the Ingrid zu Solms Human Rights Award 2026.
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Sunflowers for Ukraine: Our Mother’s Day Campaign
Sunflowers for Ukraine is the Emile Foundation’s Mother’s Day 2026 social media campaign.
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Emile Foundation Meets His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Ukraine’s Stolen Children
Emile Foundation discusses the topic of the stolen children of Ukraine in a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Yale HRL Report: How Gazprom and Rosneft Enable the Deportation of Ukraine’s Children
Emile Foundation co-founder and CEO Mariam Lambert issued the following statement today in response to a new report from the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, “Willing Accomplices: Gazprom & Rosneft’s Role in the Transportation and Indoctrination of Ukraine’s Children.”
