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COPE recently collaborated with Ewelina Startek (project manager, Probacja Association), Sebastian Juszczyk (director, (Www.juzzmedia.com), and Mateusz Przyłęcki (art direction) to create a powerful film, telling the story of four children affected by parental imprisonment. It uses real-life voice recordings of … Continue reading
On 3 June 2021, the Czech Helsinki Committee representatives attended the Children of Prisoners (COPE) online conference “Mitigating Uncertainty for Children: From pre-trial procedures to the COVID-19 pandemic.” The webinar explored uncertainty and its impact on children. For children, the … Continue reading
On November 20th, 2020, Child Rights Connect shared about its joint focus submission to the draft General Comment of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) “Children’s rights in relation to the digital environment” made in collaboration … Continue reading
On November 12th, 2020, Child Rights Connect published an article about the negotiations on a business and human rights treaty that took place at the end of October 2020. Thanks to the cooperation between the network, its members, and its … Continue reading
At the occasion of the 8th Anti-Bullying Week taking place from November 16th to November 20th, 2020, Children or Prisoners Europe launched a fundraising on the theme “Stop stigma associated with parental imprisonment” for this same period. Indeed, children with … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has entrusted Vice President for Democracy and Demography to launch a comprehensive Child Rights Strategy. The upcoming Child Rights Strategy is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2021. The partners of the … Continue reading
COPE is planning the 2019 Annual Network Meeting with Probacja Foundation, which will be taking place in Krakow, from Friday 31 May to Sunday 2 June, with a special “pre-event” on Thursday 30 May. On Thursday 30 May, COPE is … Continue reading
COPE and QUNO representatives with some other experts of child rights and child welfare experts were taking part in the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, which took place in Vienna. The Study, launched in 2016 and led … Continue reading
The conference will take place on Friday 8 June 2018, at the Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester M15 6EB. This pan-European conference, hosted by POPS (Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group) and in partnership with Children of … Continue reading
Following last year’s CATS conference focusing on “Reaching for an inclusive world”, the 2018 edition will be centred on the theme of “Safe Together”. Chosen to focus on the importance of collaboration between age groups in creating safe environments for … Continue reading
On March 23, Cope published the Volume 6 of the European Journal of Parental Imprisonment, focusing on the role of schools in supporting children with imprisoned parents. For more information please go to: http://childrenofprisoners.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/EJPI_06_2017-ENGLISH_Web.pdf … Continue reading
Throughout 2017, COPE worked closely with the Council of Europe’s Council for Penological Co-operation (PC-CP) to draft a Recommendation and Explanatory Memorandum on children with imprisoned parents. We are very pleased to announce that the Committee of Ministers of the … Continue reading
The 2018 “Not my crime, still my sentence” campaign is centred around the Council of Europe Recommendation, due to be published at the end of March. Our plan for the campaign is to have children with imprisoned parents re-write the … Continue reading
Throughout 2017, COPE worked closely with the Council of Europe’s Council for Penological Co-operation (PC-CP) to draft a Recommendation and Explanatory Memorandum on children with imprisoned parents. On 4th of April, Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has … Continue reading
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- Help send two sisters affected by parental imprisonment to the 2018 CATS conference
- European Journal of Parental Imprisonment Vol 6/2017
- The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has adopted the Recommendation and Explanatory Memorandum on children with imprisoned parents
- Campaign ‚Not my crime, still my sentece‘
- Adoption of Council of Europe Recommendation on children with imprisoned parents
- The Czech Helsinki Committee Assisted visits of children with parent in prison reflected by ERASMUS interns
- Cope organize an Annual Conference in Zagreb, Friday 20 of May
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