On 5 and 6 April 2016, the Committee of Ministers will adopt the new Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child (2016-2021). It will be launched at the Bulgarian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers. The Council of Europe’s children’s strategy is based on four main objectives of the Monaco Strategy (2011-2015). … Read more
COPE member organisation Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has submitted suggested questions and concluding observations on children of prisoners to the 71st session of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, which began on the 11 January 2016. QUNO submitted questions for Ireland, France, and Latvia’s review before the Committee on Child … Read more
Diminished agency is a common phenomenon experienced by parents in prison. In addition to their alienative effects through social and physical isolation and a loss of personal responsibility, prisons constrain the exercise of key parental functions such as providing financial support, protection, discipline and care and can have an adverse impact on parenting capacities, as … Read more
Congratulations to Dr. Alain Bouregba, President of Fédération Relais Enfants Parents, and Nancy Loucks, Chief Executive of Families Outside, on their recent honours recognising the contribution they have made to public life in France and the United Kingdom respectively. Dr. Alain Bouregba, the founder and former President of the COPE Network, was awarded the rank … Read more
As a primer to COPE’s upcoming conference in Zagreb next May, representatives of the COPE network contributed to a conference on February 2 marking the close of the Croatian two-year EU-funded MAME project, piloted and implemented by the NGO RODA for imprisoned mothers separated from their children at Pozega Prison (read more here). One of … Read more
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