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In collaboration with the scientific body "Orlando LGBT+ Mental Health without Stigma" we are launching a campaign to record experiences of conversion therapies in Cyprus, with the aim of identifying bad practices and their results in support of their criminalization effort.

It is with sadness that I have been informed of the death of Socrates Hasicos this morning. He was the Minister who promoted and vigorously supported the Civil Union in the Parliament, as well as the first Minister who represented the Government in the Cyprus Pride March in 2015.

Even slowly, times are finally changing. As has been shown in the past year, some women have been sufficiently empowered to feel ready to denounce the discrimination and incidents of violence they have suffered. Small but extremely important steps.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day which is commemorated every year on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviets.

Five years have passed since December 9, 2015, when the Law on Civil Union was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cyprus and it became law, both for same-sex and opposite-sex couples.

On the occasion of the European Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020, on Thursday 3 December 2020 at 16:00, an online information meeting for disabled organisations is organised in cooperation with the European Commission Representation in Cyprus.