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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]
Andreas Neocleous & Co was ranked as the leading firm in Cyprus by Legal 500, [4] PLC Which Lawyer, [5] Chambers Guides [6] and IFLR 1000. [7] The firm's Limassol office housed the Honorary Consulates of Japan and Portugal in Cyprus. [8] [9] [10] The firm was an active proponent of the benefits of licensed software. [11]
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]
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 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.
The ELENA Weekly Legal Update (WLU) provides information about important recent developments in international and European asylum law. [5] The ECRE Press Review provides a weekly overview of the latest news in the areas of asylum and migration. [ 6 ]