Launch of the FES Reports - COVID-19 Pandemic

Program of Launch of the FES Reports

"Migration and Asylum during the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Report on Cyprus"

"The COVID-19 Pandemic and Fundamental Rights:  A Report on Cyprus"

The event will take place on 11 July, 7.00-9.30 pm, Chateau Status (Buffer Zone opposite Ledra Palace)
Open to the Public - RSVP - office(at)fescyprus.org

7.00-7.10     Welcome: Hubert Faustmann, Director of the Office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Cyprus

7.10-7.30    Brief presentation of reports by Corina Demetriou, Expert for European Network for Anti-Discrimination and Nicos Trimikliniotis, Senior Expert Centre for Fundamental Rights and Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences and Law, University of Nicosia: 

Migration and Asylum during the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Fundamental Rights

7.30-7.50    Migration, Asylum and Fundamental Rights during the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Olga Komiti, Protection Officer of UNHCR  

7.50-8.20    Migration, Asylum and Fundamental Rights: Cyprus and Lessons from the Covid19 Pandemic? Ari Sitas, Professor Emeritus Sociology, University of  Cape Town 

8.20-8.30    Migration, Asylum and Fundamental Rights during the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Perspective from the Field, Emmanuel Achiri, President of VOIS and Legal Scholar

8.30-9.00    Discussion

9.00-9.30    Reception