#children's rights

The state’s handling of schools amid the heatwave is wholly inadequate and has failed to do the bare minimum in the past six years, Children’s Rights Commissioner Despo ...

A children’s group will soon be established to discuss issues concerning them, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday, after receiving the annual report for 2021 of the Commissioner for the ...

Cyprus is among the countries with the lowest rates of children with unmet medical needs in the EU according to data released by Eurostat. But unmet medical needs for dental ...

It was International Children’s Rights Day last Sunday and the child commissioner wasted no time in telling us that the children are very angry with adults because the world ...

Despite the progress achieved, children’s unhindered access to their rights remains an open challenge, Children’s Comissioner Despo Michaelidou said on Sunday, International Children’s Rights Day. “Wars, the ...

Ninety complaints concerning the treatment of children under the legal care of the state were received between 2011 and 2021, according to the Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo ...

A weekly show by Alpha TV called on President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday to help so that the two children of a bicommunal couple can get IDs since authorities have ...

MPs agreed during a House legal affairs committee meeting on Wednesday that reforms to family law are necessary to modernise the legislative framework and better protect children’s rights. Disy ...

Covid-19 restrictions have affected children’s rights and mental health, the Children’s Rights Commissioner Despo Michaelidou said on Tuesday. In a written statement on the international day for protection ...