The 11th European Forum on the Rights of the Child took place in Brussels on 7-8 November 2017, focussing on “Children deprived of liberty and alternatives to detention”. There were a number of presentations during the Forum, notably from Manfred Nowak, Independent Expert for the United Nations Secretary-General’s study on children deprived of liberty and … Read More
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COPE invited to meet with new FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty
“Europe is facing a crisis in terms of the respect of fundamental rights” New Director of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (FRA), Michael O’Flaherty’s meeting with civil society representatives in France, including the Children of Prisoners Europe network left those present motivated and hopeful, but not without a feeling of having been … Read More
Data collection and children with imprisoned parents
This week, COPE’s annual campaign “Not my crime, still my sentence” will be focusing on the importance of collecting data relating to children of prisoners. Included in Article 6 of the Italian Memorandum of Understanding and expressly stated as the subject of a Council of Europe Parliamentary resolution, data collection is an issue of key … Read More