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Cyprus

Cyprus has a population estimated at 871,000 (combined: Lefkosia and Lefkosa) (UN, 2009) with an area of 9,251 sq km (3,572 sq miles). The capital is Nicosia (Lefkosia to Greek Cypriots, Lefkosa to Turkish Cypriots. The major languages are Greek and Turkish.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974. The resolution of the Cyprus problem is a priority for both the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities who have been living with the effects of conflict for nearly 50 years. The United Nations facilitated peace process continues.

  • Cyprus ratified The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on July 23, 1985

  • Cyprus does not have a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325)

  • Cyprus has been a UN peacekeeping mandated country since 1964: United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)

Sources:BBC; Amnesty International; UNIFEM

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  • June 30, 2011 (Cyprus Mail)
    CYPRUS: US Places Cyprus On Sex-Trafficking 'Watch List' CYPRUS has been placed on the US' sex trafficking watch list after failing to meet minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, failing to show evidence of increased efforts to do so and ‘woefully inadequate' punishments.
  • June 29, 2011 (DI-VE)
    INTERNATIONAL: Malta put on Trafficking Watchlist Malta, Cyprus and Estonia have been put on a watch list by the US for allegedly failing to stop high levels of human trafficking.
  • June 7, 2011 (Cyprus Mail)
    CYPRUS: Sex Trade Across the Divide A local women's rights group has called on authorities to tackle sexual exploitation of trafficked women by prosecuting purchasers instead of prostitutes, applying trafficking law to strippers and offering gender sensitivity training to police, journalists and children.
  • April 7, 2011 (Famagusta Gazette)
    CYPRUS: More Needs to be Done on Human Trafficking in Cyprus Minister of the Interior Neoclis Sylikiotis has insisted that progress has been made in recent years to tackle the problem of human trafficking in Cyprus but more needs to be done.
  • April 6, 2011 (Cyprus Mail)
    CYPRUS: Gaps in Law Leave Women Open to Abuse Young children and women are vulnerable to sexual exploitation because of gaps in the law and the lack of its implementation as well as absence of a national policy, parliament's Human Rights Committee yesterday said.

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