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COPE welcomes the European Court of Human Rights ruling (21 March 2023) safeguarding the right of a child to visit his or her parent in detention. The court upheld COPE’s intervention in the Deltuva v. Lithuania case, stating that all decisions concerning children should take their best interests as a prior consideration and that children … Read more

COPE stands alongside 14 other NGOs to call on the international community to protect upon all children impacted by the conflict in Ukraine. A year has passed since the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, which has affected and displaced millions of children. Despite the international community’s repeated calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops … Read more

On 8 December 2022, the European Commission adopted a Recommendation concerning the procedural rights of suspects and accused persons subject to pre-trial detention and on material detention conditions. The Recommendation expands on a number of standards established in existing legally and non-legally binding instruments on the national, Union and international level including Council of Europe … Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the accompanying measures put in place to control it, are having a dramatic impact on some of Europe’s most vulnerable children, families and communities, compounding structural weaknesses in child protection and welfare systems. In the long-term, the socio-economic impact of the crisis, coupled with strained government services, will test the capacity … Read more