The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) focused the annual UN Day of General Discussion (DGD) this September on children with imprisoned parents. Representatives from the COPING project were in attendance amongst the various NGOs and European networks present. In addition, children from the COPING project were invited to attend and speak on … Read More
Year: 2011
Mapping of services for children with imprisoned parents
Since the launch of the COPING project, one of the research teams has been patiently mapping the available services for children with imprisoned parents throughout Europe. Great progress has been made on this front, and the team is excited to be constructing a database of services available in the various nations. The combined efforts of … Read More
COPING Communication & Publication Strategy
The COPING project has many objectives, one of which being the production of several publications based on the research findings. At this stage in the project, the Communication and Publication Strategy is being put into action and the first publications emerging from the COPING project are being released. The Project has been promoted via media … Read More
Eurochips conference “Improving Children’s participation”
On May 13th, over 70 people from the Eurochips network and Catalunya gathered in Barcelona for a conference focussing on Child Participation and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and new perspectives – where speakers challenged and inspired us to think differently about the way in which we engage with, not … Read More
Eurochips General Assembly in Spain
20th June 2011 This year, Eurochips’ GA and conference were held in Barcelona where, over a sunny weekend that left little time for sleep, around 30 Eurochips members and staff crammed in as much formal agenda, informal networking, sight-seeing and tapas-eating as possible, around the extensive programme of activities organised for us by Elias and … Read More
Bedtime stories from prison
20th June 2011 What is the objective of “Ich lese für dich”? Imprisoned mothers and fathers produce a CD for their child that narrates a story which they have previously read, not necessarily a good-night story. Above all, the gift should bring comfort to the child by reminding him that his mother and father have … Read More
Children’s art on display in the European Parliament
21st June 2011 On 25th May Eurochips and the Danish Institute for Human Rights hosted an exhibition of children’s art on the theme of parental imprisonment, alongside specially commissioned, powerful sculptures by Mieke Vase, a Paris-based Dutch artist, in an open gallery space within the European Parliament. The exhibition helped draw people to the launch … Read More
Recent developments for Coping Research Project
8th June 2011 The project has made good progress in the first 15 months, with all partners actively engaged. The launch meeting in January 2010 at the University of Huddersfield helped to establish good collaborative relationships and was followed by subsequent meetings in Iasi, Romania, in September 2010 and in Paris, France, in March 2011. … Read More
Please support our campaign!
31st May 2011 This is a reminder that our Invisible Children’s Week campaign is now in full swing. We began last week at the European Parliament in Brussels, where Danish MEP, Britta Thomsen, hosted a launch of the pan-European research study report “Children of Imprisoned Parents” conducted by the Danish Institute of Human rights. Upcoming … Read More
European Prisoner Children Campaign 2011 is launched
2nd May 2011 Join the campaign! Our goal is to achieve recognition in the European Parliament of the challenges that children of prisoners face every day. We are asking for two principle reforms: better prison visiting hours and conditions for children and the creation of monitoring groups what will maintain visiting conditions and obtain more … Read More