#Despo Michaelidou

The Children’s Rights Commissioner condemned the state’s refusal to grant back payments of the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) to children with disabilities, calling the practice “a choice with ...

A father took his underage child to the office of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights wanting to leave the child there as he could not care for it properly, ...

Commissioner for Children’s Rights Despo Michalidou delivered her annual report to President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday, outlining a rise in problems affecting children on the island. Michaelidou said that ...

Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has demanded explanations regarding a child abuse case recently uncovered in Larnaca, where five children were reportedly subjected to years ...

A total of 469 reports of sexual abuse against children were received in 2023 and 330 by October 2024, Hope for Children CRC Policy Centre said on Monday, the European day for the protection ...

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 ...

Bullying incidents are on the rise in Cyprus, children’s rights commissioner Despo Mihcaelides said on Saturday, following reports that children wrote offensive comments about a peer’s sexual identity ...

Children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou on Tuesday blasted the education ministry after a line in a play with an LGBTI+ message was removed, calling it unacceptable and saying it ...

The Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, said there was a lack of specialised services that to prevent ‘parental alienation’ which often resulted from divorce. Michaelidou ...

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 ...

This year’s World Children’s Day is overshadowed by 35 million children around the world who are forcibly displaced from their homes, instead of being able to grow up safely ...

Achieving the objective of keeping schools open and safe requires appropriate measures, Child Commissioner Despo Michalidou said on Friday, highlighting the negative effects of closed schools and urging parents to ...

Children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelides praised the passing of a recent bill which establishes a clearer framework for the handling of minors in the legal system. Michaelides said on ...

Children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelides has expressed concern that domestic laws in Cyprus still do not fully comply with the provisions and principles of the Convention of Rights of ...