“Hope For Children” CRC Policy Center is an international humanitarian organization based in Cyprus, committed to promoting and protecting the rights of children in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The organization provides direct services including shelters for unaccompanied minors, foster care, the Barnahus model, helplines, and psychosocial and legal support. HFC also leads national and EU-level advocacy, education, and awareness-raising initiatives. Through multidisciplinary collaboration, research, and innovation, HFC works to create safer environments for children and to ensure that every child grows up free from violence, exploitation, and abuse.
Contact: Andria Neocleous
Phone: +35722103234
Address: 46 Griva Digeni Avenue, Cosmos Tower, 5th floor
1080 Nicosia, Cyprus
Email: neoclous.a@uncrcpc.org
Website: https://uncrcpc.org.cy/en
Year: 2024
Year: 2024
Year: 2023
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Age of sexual consent is 17 years. The national legislation provides for a three year close-in-age exemption for a child and an adult and an exemption for children who have not yet attained the age of sexual consent but are “close in age”.
Analysis of country legislation on age of sexual consent, 2024
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Active extraterritorial jurisdiction is provided for all offences including SEC offences, and specifically those committed in the online environment if the crime is committed with the help of an electronic system accessed by Cyprus. It is not clear whether habitual residents are included. Passive extraterritoriality is not provided for in the Cypriot Criminal Code.
Under the Law on Extradition of Fugitives of 1970, extraditable offences are those contained in extradition treaties or those listed in the Annex, which only includes the “Promotion or exploitation of women or young persons for ordinary purposes”.
SEC offences are referred to as extraditable under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) framework within the EU without requiring double criminality if the act is punishable by a maximum period of at least three years of imprisonment in the requesting State.
Criminal Code, Law 91 (I)/2014 – Law on the Prevention and Combating of Sexual Abuse, Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Pornography, Law 97/1970 – The Law on Extradition of Fugitives of 1970, Law 133 (I) / 2004 – The European Arrest Warrant and the Extradition Procedures Wanted Between the Member States of the European Union, 1962 (status as of 2020), 2014, 1970,
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