This is to inform you that the Law Clinic of the University of Nicosia will be organizing the first multi-disciplinary policy co-ordination meeting in Cyprus under the auspices of the Council of Europe in relation to policies to stop sexual violence against children. The meeting will take place on 12th May and it will be a closed-meeting. Further, on the 13th May there will be a meeting of the steering group of the Council of Europe, monitoring the implementation of the One in Five campaign of the Council of Europe to stop sexual violence against children. Participants at the meeting include the Chairman of the Council of Europe Lanzarote Committee and various experts from abroad, the PACE Rapporteur for Children Stella Kyriakides, the Contact Parliamentarian for Greece Elena Rapti, but also representatives from the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Mental Health Services, and Council of Europe’s partner organizations in the campaign (Leventis Foundation, Cyprus National Commission for UNESCO, Office of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Independent Advisory Committee for the prevention and combating of violence in the family, Hope for Children, and the University of Cyprus).
We consider the above as a great achievement of our Law Clinic and we wanted to share these great news with all of you. The above have been made possible due to the co-operation of our Law Clinic with the non-profit NGO “Hope for Children, UNCRC Policy Center” and the Council of Europe, especially in the field of the new law that has been adopted by the House of Parliament against sexual abuse of children and the ratification of the Lanzarote Convention against sexual abuse of children, for which our Law Clinic and Hope for Children have been advocating since 2010, issuing various legal reports and publications on the matter.