EU officials visit HFC’s shelter for unaccompanied children
Members of the Directorate-General of the Migration and Home Affairs Unit of the European Commission visited the shelter for unaccompanied children of “Hope For Children”...
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Facility housing unaccompanied minors damaged by fire
A fire broke out at 2am on Saturday in a room of the facility housing unaccompanied minors in Larnaca. The 21 minor children were safely...
14 unaccompanied minors relocated to Finland
Fourteen young asylum seekers, all unaccompanied minors, were taken from Cyprus to be relocated in Finland as part of efforts to facilitate their humanitarian situation,...
UNHCR official to testify on underage sexual harassment claims at Pournara camp
A UNHCR representative is expected to testify on Wednesday following complaints emerged on Monday of sexual harassment of minors at the Pournara refugee camp in...
New semi-independent living spaces for unaccompanied minors
The International Organistion for Migration (IOM) on Monday announced the creation in Cyprus of new semi-independent living structures for unaccompanied migrant children above the age...
Old people’s homes being used to house migrant minors
Several old people’s homes in Larnaca are being used to host unaccompanied migrant children due to lack of space in reception centres, the House labour...
Experts advise against minors’ facility in Zygi
The European Commission and expert opinion have advised against the creation of a state facility for unaccompanied minors in an empty military camp in the...
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...
Volunteers to offer extra Greek classes to young asylum-seekers
A group of educators have decided to volunteer their free time every Sunday to teach Greek language courses to the 70 children at the Kofinou...
Dental checks on child migrants show more than half were adults
By Evie Andreou Over half of more than 100 asylum seekers claiming to be unaccompanied minors who have been tested, were found to be adults...
Zygi accused of racism over young migrant centre protest
The Pancyprian Peace Council (PPC) condemned on Friday what it described as the outbreak of racism and xenophobia displayed by Zygi residents opposed to the...
Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre
Residents of Zygi and nearby villages obstructed workers from the department of public works from conducting a record of the buildings located in an abandoned...
Yermasoyia offers to host unaccompanied refugee minors
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...
Cyprus to resettle ten families of Syrian refugees in 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...
225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in 2017
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...
Foster homes found for unaccompanied minors
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...
Undocumented migrants among Syrians brought ashore
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...
Number of unaccompanied minors doubled last year
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,...
NGO and government launch fostering programme for unaccompanied minors
Hope For Children CRC Policy Centre, is implementing a pilot programme for fostering unaccompanied minors in cooperation with the government, it said on Tuesday....
Conflict of interest in handling of unaccompanied minors, CoE says
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...