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Justice Minister Costas Fitiris and the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR)’s Cyprus representative Leslie Esther Velez on Friday met to discuss matters related to refugees and international ...

The audit office is preparing a report examining the lists used to identify 1974 prisoners of war and the payment of relevant benefits. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail on Wednesday, the ...

A register of those who suffered sexual abuse during the Turkish invasion in 1974 is urgently needed to ensure elderly survivors receive financial and psychological support, prisoners of war association chief ...

A further 40 Greek Cypriot property owners applied to the north’s Immovable Property Commission (IPC) in the past month, bringing the total number of applications filed to 8,755, figures released on ...

Two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off Myanmar’s coast in recent days, UN agencies said on Thursday, as refugees from the war-torn country make perilous maritime ...

Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA), in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), hosted a football event for refugee children and unaccompanied minors ...

A 45-year-old woman was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday by the Limassol permanent criminal court for defrauding displaced property owners, while a 53-year-old received a 12-month prison ...

The cabinet approved a decision allowing Greek Cypriot refugees living in government housing with planning irregularities to obtain title deeds or lease certificates, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Thursday. ...

Greek Cypriot refugees living on housing estates, and whose homes feature minor irregularities, will be able to acquire a title deed, the interior minister said on Tuesday. Constantinos Ioannou said ...

Turkey is examining alternative scenarios for managing a potential crisis on its eastern border amid growing concern over instability in Iran, with a focus on preventing a new wave of ...

Hundreds of people are feared dead or missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, with reports of multiple shipwrecks in the last ten days following bad weather, the UN ...

The annual Pancyprian Refugee Gathering exhibition in Dasaki Achna should become a permanent fixture, chairman of the House refugee committee and Akel MP Nikos Kettiros said on Tuesday after visiting ...

The introduction of confidence-building measures was likened to “small painkillers in the face of the great trauma of the ongoing occupation”, the Pancyprian Refugee Committee (PEP) said on Saturday ahead ...

Turkish Cypriot property in the south will no longer be made available through bidding, a practice that in the past allowed them to be allocated as holiday homes, the House ...

Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides on Thursday presented the relaunch of the ‘voluntary repatriation plan‘ for Syrians, set to open on June 2, in response to the collapse of the Assad ...

The House refugee committee wrapped up its discussions on the management of Turkish Cypriot properties on Tuesday, having decided on regulations for the distribution of residences, business establishments and agricultural ...

Allowing children of mothers who are registered as displaced persons to vote for MPs-in-exile from the Famagusta and Kyrenia districts may disrupt parliament’s balance, the interior ministry spokesman Menelaos ...

By Alan Hirsch Donald Trump, America’s new president, has cut back massively on US commitments to asylum seekers, blocked all asylum processes and started to remove irregular immigrants. Trump’...

The Republic of Cyprus was on Tuesday ordered to pay around €50,000 in damages to two asylum seekers for degrading treatment and pushback as they sought refuge in Cyprus from Lebanon, ...

Violations of lease agreements were found in one in seven contracts regarding Turkish Cypriot properties in the Republic, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. Speaking at the House refugees ...

The government on Friday took a tough line against accusations from the UN that it was carrying out migrant pushbacks within the buffer zone, calling the statements unhelpful in resolving ...

The government on Tuesday promised to tweak the criteria governing housing assistance schemes for refugees and displaced persons, with MPs hearing that 25 per cent of applications have been denied in ...

Cyprus on Tuesday received a slap on the wrist from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for its treatment of two asylum seekers who arrived on the island in 2019. ...