Posts tagged with "unaccompanied minors"

Yermasoyia offers to host unaccompanied refugee minors Cyprus

Yermasoyia offers to host unaccompanied refugee minors

August 4th, 2018 Yermasoyia Municipality in Limassol on Saturday expressed the wish to host unaccompanied refugee minors and suggested the renovation of an old school building to accommodate them. Mayor of Yermasoyia Kyriacos Xydias told the Cyprus News Agency that following consultations with residents of the municipality he will suggest to the...
Cyprus to resettle ten families of Syrian refugees in 2018 Cyprus

Cyprus to resettle ten families of Syrian refugees in 2018

May 27th, 2018 Ten families of Syrian refugees, from Lebanon and Jordan, are expected to be resettled in Cyprus within 2018, according to an agreement between the Republic of Cyprus and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Natasa Xenophontos-Koudouna, the head of the IOM office in Cyprus,  says the decision marks the beginning of...
225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in 2017 Cyprus

225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in 2017

May 16th, 2018 Some 225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in Cyprus last year, according to the latest Eurostat report made public on Wednesday. The report said that the unaccompanied minors amounted to 32.4 per cent of all asylum applications received in Cyprus. Four per cent of applicants concerned minors up to 14 years old, while the...
Foster homes found for unaccompanied minors Cyprus

Foster homes found for unaccompanied minors

December 6th, 2017 Fifty-eight unaccompanied minors, whose legal guardian is the director of the social welfare services, have been placed in foster families this year, Hope For Children CRC Policy Centre said on Wednesday. The centre that promotes child welfare said that it has successfully completed the pilot programme for foster care for...
Undocumented migrants among Syrians brought ashore Cyprus

Undocumented migrants among Syrians brought ashore

July 8th, 2017 Seven of the 85 Syrians who arrived in Cyprus in a boat at Pomos, Paphos, on Friday turned out to be undocumented migrants and were brought before the Paphos district court, police announced on Saturday. The remaining 78 were transferred to the Kokkinotrimithia refugee reception centre shortly before midnight Friday. The Syrians,...
Number of unaccompanied minors doubled last year Cyprus

Number of unaccompanied minors doubled last year

May 12th, 2017 The number of unaccompanied minors among asylum seekers registered in 2016 in Cyprus has more than doubled compared with 2015, unlike the rest of Europe, where on average the number has fallen. According to Eurostat data, in 2015 some 105 children registered in Cyprus rising to 215 in 2016. By contrast, the number fell by about a...
NGO and government launch fostering programme for unaccompanied minors Cyprus

NGO and government launch fostering programme for unaccompanied minors

February 21st, 2017   Hope For Children CRC Policy Centre, is implementing a pilot programme for fostering unaccompanied minors in cooperation with the government, it said on Tuesday. “Many unaccompanied children arriving in Cyprus, have either lost their parents/guardians or were separated from them. In order to improve the reception...
Conflict of interest in handling of unaccompanied minors, CoE says Cyprus

Conflict of interest in handling of unaccompanied minors, CoE says

November 10th, 2016 A conflict of interest adversely affects the human rights of unaccompanied minor children (UMC) in Cyprus, Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights, warned on Thursday. In an open letter to Attorney-general Costas Clerides he said the social welfare office is the adviser for UMCs but also represents them...
Unaccompanied refugee minors in Larnaca protest over application delays Cyprus

Unaccompanied refugee minors in Larnaca protest over application delays

June 2nd, 2016 Authorities went on alert on Thursday after a group of youths left a reception centre for unaccompanied minors in Aradippou, Larnaca. The group of 17 minors, all from Somalia, were noticed absent from the reception centre shortly before 5pm. Shortly after, they were spotted on the Phinikoudes strip. Persons staying at the...
Home provides hope for the rootless teens Cyprus

Home provides hope for the rootless teens

May 15th, 2016 By Annette Chrysostomou   “It is like a big family,” says 19-year-old Odai from Syria as he remembers his time at the Home for Children shelter for unaccompanied minors in Nicosia. “People here have what they need,” says Max from Somalia, who lived at the shelter for 16 months. Cyprus may not score well compared...
Home for unaccompanied minors opens in Nicosia Cyprus

Home for unaccompanied minors opens in Nicosia

March 30th, 2016 A second private children’s home for unaccompanied minors, The House of Hope, was inaugurated on Tuesday in Nicosia “The continuing increase in the numbers of unaccompanied minors has led to greater needs in terms of housing, care and protection,” Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said, “which is why Hope for Children, in...
Child commissioner slams state for lack of policy Cyprus

Child commissioner slams state for lack of policy

October 8th, 2014 By Constantinos Psillides Child Commissioner Leda Koursoumba yesterday slammed government services over their lack of coordination regarding the handling of unaccompanied minors currently housed at Kokkinotrimithia. The ten minors – aged 15 to 17 - were among the 340 Syrian refugees rescued two weeks ago from a fishing boat off...
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