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‘Tolerance needs to be nurtured in multicultural school society’
By Andria Kades Lakatamia C primary school has become the seventh educational establishment in Cyprus to implement a European programme combating racism and racial discrimination. At an event held...
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‘Keep your children informed’ NGO says after near-abduction
The NGO REACTION on Tuesday issued tips for parents following the near abduction of a child at Phaneromeni Square on Sunday, the Cyprus News Agency reported. “It is especially important that parents...
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A night at the museum
The first museum sleepover in Cyprus was organised by Leventis Gallery, allowing 18 children to celebrate International Museum Day Aged between eight and 12, they went to the Nicosia gallery on Friday...
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Mother’s plea for her children’s safe return
By Evie Andreou A WOMAN from Limassol is desperately trying to get her two small children back from Syria after they were kidnapped by their father around a month ago. The two children, a boy aged six...
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Divorced fathers seek equal rights
By Evie Andreou SOCIETY needs to be educated on men’s equal rights to parenthood, Marios Panaou the man behind the Cyprus Fatherhood Initiative group said yesterday . He said fathers were not just...
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Questions asked over protection of children ‘forced to beg’
By Andria Kades AUTHORITIES were slammed on Saturday for not acting quickly to protect two minor siblings allegedly forced to beg outside a supermarket for their parents. DISY deputy Stella Kyriakidou...
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Child TV stars could be at risk
Children participating in TV productions aimed at adult audiences may be potentially problematic, according to Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights Leda Koursoumba as this may be a form...
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Scholarships for Helios children
THE cabinet has decided to grant scholarships to 11 children of victims of the 2005 Helios airline accident. According to an official announcement, nine underage children and two students, have been...
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‘Technology harming our children’ MPs say
By Andria Kades Lawmakers yesterday discussed what Greens leader Giorgos Perdikis called damning evidence of psychological and physical effects on children from using mobile phones, tablets, laptops...
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Health minister meets overseas doctors
Health minister George Pamporides on Tuesday visited a group of specialist doctors from the Shriners Hospital for Children of Springfield, Massachusetts who fly to Cyprus annually to examine children...
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Increased dust in the atmosphere
Increased dust levels were recorded in the atmosphere on Tuesday, the department of labour inspection (DLI) warned. The average hourly concentration of dust particles should not exceed 50 μg/m³ under...
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Palace lunch for enclaved children, Helios orphans
The President and First Lady, Nicos and Andri Anastasiades hosted a lunch on Monday at the presidential palace for the enclaved children and the orphans of the Helios crash, and children related to the...
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Omirou hosts refugee children at the House
Refugee children residing in Cyprus from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and Somalia were received by House President Yiannakis Omirou on Tuesday at the Parliament. Speaking...
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Eight days in Moria
Aphrodite Iacovidou, a Cypriot junior doctor from a London hospital, describes her experience of volunteering at a Lesbos refugee camp dealing with up to 2,000 new arrivals every day Sitting in my...
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Left without their children
By Andria Kades Margarita Charalambous has not seen her children – Yerasimos and Olymbia aged six and five – since one Thursday afternoon last June when her Syrian husband said he was taking them for a...
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Britain may take in unaccompanied children fleeing Syria
Britain might take in refugee children who have been displaced by the war in Syria and have travelled to other countries in Europe, a government minister said on Sunday. International Development...
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Cyprus ranks 49th in the world on access to justice for children
Cyprus ranks 49th in the world on how effectively children can use the courts to defend their rights according to new research from Child Rights International Network (CRIN). The report, Rights,...
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Increased levels of dust in the atmosphere
The Labour Inspection Department on Wednesday warned the public, especially vulnerable groups to stay indoors as much as possible due to an increase of dust in the atmosphere. At 9am the average hourly...
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Ten children stabbed outside school gate in southern China
A knife-wielding attacker stabbed ten school children in southern China on Monday, severely injuring two, before killing himself, state media reported, the latest in a series of school attacks in the...
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Hope For Children and University of Nicosia medical school sign deal to help...
The International Humanitarian and Independent Institution Hope For Children (HFC) UNCRC Policy Centre and the Medical School of the University of Nicosia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...
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