In December 2017, Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) published volume 6 of the European Journal of Parental Imprisonment ‘First port of call: The role of schools in supporting children with imprisoned parents’. The articles highlight the key role schools have in supporting children affected by imprisonment and explore the importance of Human Rights Education principles; … Read More
The panel ‘Count children to make them count: Filling the data gap’, part of a UN Human Rights Council session held 25 June 2019 in Geneva, focused on data collection in the context of the UN Global Study on children deprived of liberty — reflections both on data that has been collected and on what … Read More
At the 2019 COPE Forum for Reflection and Exchange in Krakow, 35 COPE members and affiliates gathered to share challenges and positive practices from the previous year. The Forum presents a unique opportunity for COPE network members to work together and explore innovative initiatives designed to improve the wellbeing and access to rights for children … Read More
‘Prison visits are never fun. Before you’re nervous – you are glad to see them but you’re also worried about them and leaving you are very sad because you don’t know when you’ll get to see them again.’ – Forum for Young People’s Voices COPE’s annual international conference took place on Friday 31 May in … Read More
Eurochild held their General Assembly and Members’ Day 17-18 April in Brussels. COPE was approved as a member organisation, and is looking forward to being an active part of the Eurochild network. The event began with a welcome from Jana Hainsworth, Eurochild Secretary General, and then a panel discussion/exchange in the morning of April 17, … Read More
The 12th EU Forum on the Rights of the Child, organised by the European Commission and held this year on 2-3 April 2019 in Brussels, is an annual gathering of key actors from EU Member States (including Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the Western Balkans) in the interest of promoting good child’s rights practices in … Read More
A year has passed since the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers released Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)5 concerning children with imprisoned parents to their member states. A landmark series of recommendations honouring the rights of children of incarcerated parents and establishing standards for the promotion of those rights, the Recommendation includes protocols and obligations for police, prison … Read More
Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) is pleased to announce the release of the programme for our 2019 COPE Annual Conference, held 31 May in Krakow, Poland. This pan-European conference, entitled ‘Bridging the gap: Boosting the visibility, voices and cross-sectoral support of children who have a parent in prison’, will be hosted by COPE member Małopolskie … Read More
This pan-European conference, hosted by Małopolskie Stowarzyszenie Probacja and in partnership with Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE), will consider the importance of cross-sectoral support for children with imprisoned parents.
Roma and Travellers tend to be overrepresented in European prison populations. Roma individuals make up an estimated fifty percent of sentenced prisoners in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania; Travellers — though they make up 0.6 percent of Ireland’s general population—account for nearly twenty-five percent of the female prison population. Reasons for this over-representation include, among other … Read More
