#unaccompanied minors

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 ...

One hundred and fifty unaccompanied minors currently at Pournara are to be transferred to other accommodation units in Famagusta, while the interior ministry said that 317 irregular migrants had arrived in ...

In the wake of the uproar over living conditions for unaccompanied minors at Pournara migrant reception centre, MPs on Monday focused on the delicate subject of how to determine whether ...

The interior ministry on Thursday hit back at Akel’s calls for the minister Nicos Nouris to resign following a report which slammed the “appalling” conditions faced by unaccompanied minors ...

The children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou on Wednesday said it is the state’s duty to guarantee food, protection and acceptable health and hygiene conditions for children at the ...

Increasing migratory flows into Cyprus require comprehensive management of the asylum system in line with international laws and norms to implement fast and fair asylum procedures, the UNHCR representative in ...

The House human rights committee on Monday discussed the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors arriving in Cyprus from warzones, and measures that should be done to protect them from exploitation ...

The House human rights committee on Tuesday underlined its support for shelters to house unaccompanied teenager migrants, calling for the programme to be strengthened. So far 57 teenagers have made use ...

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” CRC Policy Center in Nicosia, ...

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 evacuated, authorities said. According to the ...