Koursoumba highlights plight of unaccompanied minors
STATE policies and programmes for the transition of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum into independent adulthood are severely lacking, the Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s
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‘All children should have equal rights’
Parents should be entitled to child benefits irrespective of the duration of their stay in Cyprus, Commissioner for Children’s Rights Leda Koursoumba has said. In
Facebook user fined for insulting couple who adopted Asian girl
A woman has been fined €800 after being found guilty of spreading racist and xenophobic material online for describing a couple as ‘idiots’ on Facebook
Three years and counting for suspected predator to go on trial
By Evie Andreou Children’s Rights Commissioner, Leda Koursoumba, slammed authorities on Friday for the delay in the trial of a man accused of sexually abusing
Child watchdog furious over pedo sentence
Children’s Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba on Tuesday said she was disappointed by a recent court decision sentencing a 48-year-old man to a four years in
Government working on building society focused on children
The government is consistently working on building a society focused on children and granting them tools to shape future society, President Nicos Anastasiades said on
Child stabbing suspect ‘a victim of an indifferent system’
Children’s rights commissioner Leda Koursoumba on Thursday condemned the fact that the 13-year-old boy who allegedly fatally stabbed his nine-year-old sister was admitted to the
Ten per cent increase in complaints to child commissioner
By Evie Andreou Children’s Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba on Thursday said that her office has seen a more than 10 per cent increase last year
Audit boss accuses Koursoumba’s spouse of being a strategic defaulter
By Elias Hazou LAW Commissioner Leda Koursoumba on Thursday denied that her husband had part of his debt to the Cooperative Central Bank (CCB) written
State officials can have driver outside office hours if work related
More state officials will be allowed a chauffeur for out-of-hours work as per a Cabinet decision, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday. The decision
Row between two tough state officials threatens Cyprus talks
By Costas Apostolides Over the past week or so, a public row has broken out between the Law Commissioner Leda Koursoumba and the Auditor-General Odysseas
Koursoumba accuses audit boss of ‘feeding society’s thirst for gossip’
By Andria Kades Law Commissioner Leda Koursoumba has been using a work vehicle for personal use and illegally getting a messenger to be her driver,
Audit boss irritated by €463,000 legal bill incurred by law commissioner
Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides told parliament on Thursday that the law commissioner spending €463,000 in legal fees on one private lawyer was a classic case of
Child migrants deserve better, watchdog says
By Evie Andreou CHILDREN’S Rights Commissioner, Leda Koursoumba said on Thursday that the government needs to adopt a comprehensive policy on children of undocumented migrants
Bill to establish child-friendly justice system
The best interests of the child will be taken into account in a new bill regulating issues of youngsters who are suspects that was presented
Police ‘acted immediately’ on abuse claim after children’s watchdog cites violations
Police on Thursday denied that they had violated the rights of a minor child whose parents had reported a neighbour for allegedly sexually abusing her.
Bullied boy goes back to school without ministerial escort
THE education ministry is investigating an incident which ended with the transfer last week of a 13-year-old boy from Limassol to hospital with concussion after
Calls to better integrate migrants into Cypriot society on eve of anti-racism day
On the eve of International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which is marked on March 21, migrant support group, KISA
‘Justice has failed’ in light jail sentence for paedo
JUSTICE Minister Ionas Nicolaou has described as “inadequate” the 45 month prison sentence passed on a 68-year-old man who sexually assaulted a six year-old girl.
Childrens Rights Commissioner blames state for arrest of 17-year-old murder suspect
By Constantinos Psillides Childrens Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba has blasted authorities over the case of the 17-year-old who was varrested on Sunday for murder, saying