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As in all countries, UNHCR Cyprus has a supervisory role under the 1951 Refugee Convention in ensuring that the rights of asylum seekers and refugees are duly respected. That means in practice, having access to the asylum procedures, to adequate housing, food, medical treatment and to integration as a long term solution to the refugee plight. [16]
The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said government authorities in ethnically divided Cyprus have rounded up dozens of migrants and pushed them back inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone ...
Cypriot refugees are the Cypriot nationals or Cyprus residents who had their main residence (as opposed to merely owning property) in an area forcibly evacuated during the Cyprus conflict. The government of Cyprus also recognizes as refugees the descendants of the original refugees in the male line regardless of place of birth. [1]
The law of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακό Δίκαιο, romanized: Kypriakó Díkaio) is a legal system which applies within the Republic of Cyprus. Although Cypriot law is extensively codified, it is still heavily based on English common law in the sense that the fundamental principle of precedent applies.
According to Cyprus Interior Ministry statistics, some 2,140 people arrived by boat to EU-member Cyprus between Jan. 1 and April 4 of this year, the vast majority of them Syrian nationals ...
As record numbers of Syrian refugees reach the shores of Cyprus, the Nicosia government wants the European Union to consider declaring parts of their war-torn homeland safe to repatriate them to ...
The organization's lawyers are experts in the field of asylum and migration law and the enforcement of human rights. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] In interviews, they comment on the situation of human rights and the rule of law in Europe, [ 28 ] criticize the EU's migration policy as a "policy of deterrence" [ 36 ] and the consequences of the EU-Turkey deal ...
Andгeas Sofocleous (Greek: Ανδρέας Σοφοκλέους; born 1967 in Pelendri, Cyprus) is the founder and the managing partner of the law firm of Andreas Sofocleous & Со. Не graduated from Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in 1993 and was admitted to the Сyprus Ваг Association in 1994.