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The deputy ministry for social welfare is searching for permanent solutions for housing unaccompanied minors. Deputy Minister Marilena Evangelou told the House committee on human rights on Monday that meetings ...

Local authorities were up in arms on Wednesday about a group of unaccompanied minors in Larnaca who have been removed from a previous facility to a state nursing home in ...

A total of 25 unaccompanied minors departed from Cyprus for Germany on Thursday accompanied by representatives of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), as part of the pilot programme for the ...

A total of 80 unaccompanied minor migrants, who were housed at a facility in Oroklini, are being relocated to other facilities within and outside Larnaca following two fires that occurred late ...

Police arrested a minor on Tuesday at a centre housing unaccompanied minors in Paphos to investigate an assault case against a police officer. According to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Nicolaou, ...

A total of eight people were arrested on Thursday evening after two fights broke out at a children’s shelter in Larnaca. Police said the first fight took place at ...

Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has spoken up once more about the urgent need to deal with the housing of minor asylum seekers in the city. In statements to media on ...

The mayors of Yeri and Latsia, Neophytos Papalazarou and Christos Pittaras, have expressed their vehement opposition to the potential construction of new buildings to accommodate unaccompanied migrant children within their ...

Integration of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum is imperative to avoid serious future problems, Director of the Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare, Yiannis Nicolaides said. Addressing members of the House interior ...

Cyprus experienced a 33 per cent decrease in the number of new asylum seekers in August 2023 compared to the same month last year, while, at the same time, the EU saw ...

A message from Cyprus’ law commissioner urging for unaccompanied minors to be kept in premises away from other children sparked a wave of ire on Wednesday, that also embroiled the ...

The government’s decision to create shelters for vulnerable minors between the municipalities of Germasogeia and Ayios Athanasios in Limassol without informing the local authorities sparked outrage among officials and ...

Tensions overnight flared up once more at the unaccompanied minors’ facility in Paphos at the Tombs of the Kings area, it was reported on Wednesday. Police are investigating the latest ...

Lakatamia should be consulted before a potential decision is made by the government to house migrants at a former school within its municipal boundaries, its mayor said on Tuesday. Fotoula ...

Migrant support group Kisa on Thursday slammed a proposal tabled by the Elam party mandating the age-testing of asylum seekers claiming to be minors. In a statement, Kisa called the ...

Footage of clashes between unaccompanied minors at a Paphos accommodation centre prompted the city’s mayor to on Tuesday warn that the state is responsible “should the worst happen”. Speaking ...

Cyprus-based NGO CODECA, whose main goal is to foster and promote social cohesion, development and care, is currently carrying out a project, called “Civilhood”, aimed at enhancing the transition of ...

The newly established ‘safe zone’, at the Pournara reception centre is now operational, the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA) announced. The new units, installed by the EUAA, will house unaccompanied ...

Paphos Mayor Phedon Phedonos on Saturday called for talks at the presidential palace to discuss migration, a day after anti-riot police intervened to break up a fight between unaccompanied minors ...

Police on Monday said they are “sparing no effort” in locating missing persons while many resources are being given to locate the 14 unaccompanied minors who disappeared from the facilities in ...

Authorities are working on amending the procedures followed for unaccompanied minors as police said Friday there were 14 unaccompanied children who continue to be missing after leaving from reception centres and ...

Eleven underage, unaccompanied minors are missing, some for up to three years, MPs heard on Thursday as elected officials decried double standards. The report was made available by the deputy ...

Deputy social welfare minister Anastasia Anthousi on Tuesday said her ministry was working on an alternative solution for housing 150 unaccompanied minors in Paphos after the owner of the Famagusta accommodation ...

Τhe interior ministry said on Thursday it would not be commenting at this stage on the attorney-general’s decision to launch an investigation into allegations of migrant exploitation, with high ...