COPE’s Norwegian member, For Fangers Pårørende (FFP), offers support and advice to families and friends of prisoners. The NGO’s mission is to provide transparency and improved conditions for their families. FFP provides advice and support by phone, email and at their offices in Oslo and Trondheim. In 2014, FFP staff visited several prisons across the country to … Read more
In October 2014, Children of Prisoners Europe welcomed UK organisation Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group (POPS) as an applicant member of the network. This further partnership—POPS and Children of Prisoners Europe worked very successfully together on the Coping project (2010-2013)—promises to be both interesting and mutually beneficial. The year 2014 has been an extremely busy one for … Read more
The Ombudsman’s Office for Children in Croatia, a full member of the COPE network and represented by the Deputy Ombudsman for Children, Maja Gabelica Šupljika, has been working to improve the situation of children of imprisoned parents since 2006. This year, the Ombudsman’s Office has carried out visits to the following institutions within the prison … Read more
Relais Enfants Parents Romands director Viviane Schekter opened “Parenthood and Detention”, an interdisciplinary conference it organised in Lausanne on 18 November, by emphasising the need for further development of support initiatives for imprisoned parents and increased coordination among the various sectors involved. “Stronger work relationships need to be forged, particularly with the prison authorities,” she … Read more
The Child Rights Action Group (CRAG), which consists of 15 child rights organisations including Children of Prisoners Europe, spearheaded an open letter to Members of European Parliament. The main aim of this letter is to remind all MEPs of the importance of children’s rights in their work, the existence of the Child Rights Manifesto that was drafted by CRAG … Read more
The Child Rights Action Group (CRAG) of which COPE is a member, sent an open letter to the recently elected European Parliament President, Jean-Claude Juncker, in September 2014, urging him to uphold his commitment to build a Europe that invests in its people. In the letter, CRAG urges Mr. Juncker to steer the European Union … Read more
The new European Parliament must have the institutional capacity to stand up for the interests of children in every aspect of its work. We call on you, to ensure the rights of all children around the world are respected and fulfilled. All 28 EU Member States have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of … Read more
Network member Pact launches ‘Our Voice’: The Charter for Children & Young People with a family member in prison Pact has teamed up with a group of young people between the ages of 13 and 17 who have experienced the imprisonment of a family member, to find out what changes they would like to see in … Read more
The theme of the German Juki-Online Consultation project for children and young people, launched in 2013 and funded by the German television lottery, was detention. Building on network member Treffpunkt e.V.’s existing online advice centre for families of prisoners, a new project has created a long-term online advice and information portal designed specifically for school … Read more
German network affiliate, Morning Tears Deutschland e.V., has begun a campaign to create more child-friendly visiting spaces within Cologne Prison. The campaign, “Room to bond,” is an initiative of BAG-S, with assistance from Alanus University, Morning Tears, Children for a Better World and SKM/SKF Cologne, which aims to raise €1,250 to carry out a series … Read more
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