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More awareness needed on problems of intersex persons, Savvidou says
OMBUDSWOMAN, Eliza Savvidou on Wednesday invited Wednesday the health ministry, doctors and civil rights group ACCEPT-LGBT to an open discussion to address the problems faced by intersex persons as...
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Refugees moved to temporary Kokkinotrimithia camp (Updated)
Fifty-one refugees believed to have arrived in the north from Turkey by boat and who crossed through the buffer zone at Limnitis, have been accommodated at a reception centre in the Kokkinotrimithia...
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Free orthopaedic check-ups for children by US doctors
A group of specialist orthopaedic doctors from the Shriners Hospital for Children of Springfield, Massachusetts will be in Cyprus this month to examine children with severe orthopaedic and spine...
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France demands Britain take in Calais migrant children
Paris demanded on Monday that Britain honour promises to take in migrant children from the notorious Jungle camp in the French port city of Calais, adding to pressure following accusations by the Red...
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Shriners Hospitals plans to expand cooperation in Cyprus to include education
For 35 years, doctors from Shriners Hospitals for Children have been visiting Cyprus and examining children with serious orthopaedic problems. This year, doctors expressed their desire to see this...
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Syrian refugees rescued off north-west coast
Eighty-three Syrian refugees drifting in a boat left powerless after engine failure were towed into Latsi harbour by marine police, early Friday. Information was received Thursday that the vessel,...
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Playgrounds accidentally omitted from open-air smoking ban bill
PARLIAMENT should act in full respect of children’s rights and vote for a total ban on smoking in playgrounds and adjacent areas, Children’s Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba said after learning that...
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France, Britain bicker over child migrants stuck in Calais
Five days into a French operation to clear the Calais ‘Jungle’ France has lashed out at apparent British criticism of the way children are being treated while thousands of migrants are resettled across...
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Children and domestic worker escape house fire
Two minor children and a domestic worker were treated for smoke inhalation late Saturday after managing to escape a fire that broke out in their home in Ayia Fyla, Limassol. According to CNA, the fire...
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Failure to strap children in is a crime, road safety NGO says
Not securing children in car seats is a crime, the head of road safety promotion non-governmental organisation, Reaction, Marios Stavrou said on Monday. The group called for a revision of the...
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Backlash against ‘hateful’ Archbishop over anti-gay comments (Updated)
Archbishop Chrysostomos has announced that the Church plans on establishing schools that will teach among other things that homosexuality is “an unnatural choice”. The comment drew the ire of...
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Seeking a normal Christmas for children in care
By Andria Kades AS CHRISTMAS approaches, social services and volunteers are working hard to ensure that the 60 children living in children’s homes or shelters will have a family to spend the holiday...
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Cabinet approves implementation of child protection strategy
The cabinet on Wednesday gave the nod to a bill for implementing the national strategy for the protection of children from sexual exploitation and abuse. The bill provides for the establishment of a...
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Bikers raise awareness for children with cancer
With the aim of collecting money in support of the ‘A dream a wish’ association which seeks to help children suffering from cancer, motorcyclists for the 17th consecutive year set out on a four-day...
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Serbian children were not deported, foreign ministry says
THE foreign ministry on Tuesday denied Turkish Cypriot reports that authorities had deported a group of Serbian children who arrived on the island through Larnaca airport on their way to take part in a...
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Children hit by cars in separate Paphos incidents
A 20-month-old toddler was injured on Friday, after he was hit by a car in an apartment complex parking lot in Paphos, police announced. According to a police report, the boy escaped his mother’s...
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Children’s watchdog wants theatre performances rated
CHILDREN’S Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba said on Friday that the country should introduce a rating system at theatres following a number of complaints filed to her office where schools brought...
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Bill to establish child-friendly justice system
The best interests of the child will be taken into account in a new bill regulating issues of youngsters who are suspects that was presented on Tuesday by Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou. The bill has...
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Seven immigrants picked up in Akaki
Police found seven illegal immigrants around midnight on Tuesday in Akaki, Nicosia who had crossed from the north. One of them is a 24-year-old woman with two children, aged six and two-and-a-half...
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Parents of disabled children want more school chaperones
Around 50 parents have filed complaints with the children’s rights commissioner over the last few days over the non-appointment of school chaperones for their disabled children, it emerged on...
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