Symfiliosi has published over 450 policy reports and codes of practice. Below you can find a selection:1.The use of the EU Charter for fundamental rights at national level (annual submission to FRA since 2014).
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Franet National contribution to the FRA Fundamental Rights Report (annual submission to FRA since 2014), which includes chapters on racial discrimination, asylum, borders, hate speech and rights of victims of crime; regular updates of the
FRA’s anti-Muslim hatred database. 3.Research analysis and reporting on fundamental rights considerations for the Migration Preparedness and Crisis Blueprint: FRANET monthly bulletins to FRA on migration and asylum.
4. 2024 Thematic Report on national measures to combat anti-Muslim hatred, submitted to the European network of legal experts in the non-discrimination field. (transnational Network report fourthcoming)
5.Criminal Detention in the EU: Conditions and Monitoring- Update of FRA’s Criminal Detention Database, FRANET report to FRA. Co-authored with N. Trimikliniotis. 2024
6.Mapping and analysis of national human rights structures in the EU: Cyprus Country Report, FRANET report to FRA. 2024
7.Fundamental rights concerns at borders, FRANET fieldwork report to FRA. 2024
8.Anti-Muslim hate speech, March 2023, FRANET report to FRA. 2023
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Developments regarding civic space in the EU and an overview of the possibilities for human rights defenders to enter EU territory, FRANET report to FRA. 2023.
10. Procedural safeguards in European Arrest Warrant proceedings, FRANET fieldwork report to FRA. 2023
11. Investigations of fundamental rights violations and criminal offences at EU borders, FRANET report to FRA. 2023
12. Mapping of child protection systems in the EU, FRANET report to FRA. 2023
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Non-discrimination country report: Cyprus, European network of legal experts in the non-discrimination field (multiple annual submissions since 2003).
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The National provisions transposing Directive 2009/37 on European Works Councils on confidentiality, non-disclosure of information and gender balance, Cyprus, European Centre of Expertise in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies (ECE). 2023
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National intelligence authorities and surveillance in the EU: Fundamental rights safeguards and remedies, Report for Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, November 2022.
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Ageing in digital societies: enablers and barriers to older persons exercising their social rights, FRANET report to FRA, June 2022.
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Migration and Asylum during the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Report on Cyprus, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) , July 2022.
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Migration and Asylum during the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic: FES BRIEFING, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), July 2022.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Fundamental Rights:A Report on Cyprus, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) July 2022.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Fundamental Rights:A Report on Cyprus: FES BRIEFING, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), July 2022.
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Study to support the impact assessment of an EU Initiative on improving the working conditions of platform workers, Report for Cyprus, PPMI for the European Commission's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL), March 2021.
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Legal interpretation of certain aspects of the Proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union, Report for Cyprus, European Centre of Expertise in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies (ECE), March 2021.
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Thematic Review 2021 on Platform Work, Report for Cyprus, European Centre of Expertise in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies (ECE), February 2021.
24. ECE Thematic Review 2021: Multiparty Work Relationships, Report for Cyprus, European Centre of Expertise in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies (ECE) Thematic Review 2021, March 2021.
25.‘
Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in the EU: Fundamental Rights Implications, Cyprus Country Report 1’, commissioned by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, March 2020. Co-authored with C. Demetriou.
26.‘Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in the EU: Fundamental Rights Implications, Cyprus Country Report 2, commissioned by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, April 2020.
27.
Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in the EU: Fundamental Rights Implications, Cyprus Country Report 3’, commissioned by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, May 2020. Co-authored with C. Demetriou.
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Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in the EU: Fundamental Rights Implications, Cyprus Country Report 4’, commissioned by the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, June 2020. Co-authored with C. Demetriou.
29.‘Severe labour exploitation and the Employers Sanction Directive’, FRANET report to FRA, April 2020.
30.‘Equal access to criminal justice for all victims of crimes against the person’, FRANET deliverable to FRA, April 2020. Co-authored with Corina Demetriou.
31.‘Long-term residence permits’, FRANET deliverable to FRA, April 2020. Co-authored with C. Demetriou.
32.‘Presumption of Innocence: procedural rights in criminal proceedings’, April 2020.
33.‘Fundamental Rights Impact of the EU Terrorism Directive’, April 2020.
34.FRA Quarterly Migration Bulletins, January, April and July 2020.
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Cyprus as a new refugee "hotspot" in Europe? Challenges for a Divided Country, Report for Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, January 2020.
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MIGRATION: KEY FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS CONCERNS, Asylum, migration and border, Quarterly bulletin 1 - 2020, Fundamental Rights Agency, report on Cyprus.
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The reality of free movement for young European citizens migrating in times of crisis, Cyprus National Report, ON-THE-MOVE, Grant Agreement JUST/2014/RCIT/AG/CITI/7269, December 2016.
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Migrants and their descendants: social inclusion and participation in society, Cyprus Report for the Fundamental Rights Agency, March 2017.
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Rapid Assessment of the Asylum and Migration Policy Area: Expert Report on Cyprus, for Oxford Research Groups, August 2016,
www.oxfordresearch.eu40.
The interpretation of the Return Directive by
national courts in Cyprus, Report 3, REDIAL Project, Odysseus Network, 2016
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Country report on citizenship law: Cyprus, [GLOBALCIT], EUDO Citizenship Observatory, 2015/01, Country, Reports, Cadmus, European University Institute Research Repository, European University Institute, Florence, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUDO Citizenship Observatory in collaboration with Edinburgh University Law School, Country Report, RSCAS/EUDO-CIT-CR 2015/1, Badia Fiesolana, San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy.
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The interpretation of the Return Directive by
national courts in Cyprus: Report 1, REDIAL Project, Odysseus Network, 2015.
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Regulating the employment relationship in Europe: a guide to Recommendation No. 198, co-authored Report for the International Labour Organisation for the European Labour Law Network, March 2013, co-authored with the network.
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Report on the Free Movement of Workers in Cyprus in 2012-2013, National Expert Report for the European Network on Free Movement of Workers within the European Union coordinated by the University of Nijmegen's
Centre for Migration Law under the European Commission's supervision.
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Migrant digitalities and Germinal social movements in three arrival cities: Mobile commons transforming the urban questions?, Thematic Report (WP9), 7th Framework Programme Project MIG@NET, Transnational digital networks, migration and gender, Deliverable 11, 2013
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Intercultural conflict and dialogue, Thematic Report “(WP10),7th Framework Programme Project MIG@NET, Transnational digital networks, migration and gender, Deliverable 11, 2013.
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Discrimination on the Ground of Religion or Belief Cyprus Country Report, June 2012, drafted for the EU Network of socio-economic experts in the anti-discrimination field established and managed by Human European Consultancy
www.humanconsultancy.com and ÖSB Consulting GmbH for the European Commission.
48.Links between public authorities at the different levels of governance in implementing diversity and anti-discrimination policies, Cyprus Country Report, March 2012, report drafted for the EU Network of socio-economic experts in the anti-discrimination field established and managed by Human European Consultancy
www.humanconsultancy.com and ÖSB Consulting GmbH for the European Commission.
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Economic Case for Anti-Discrimination, Cyprus Country Report, October 2011, drafted for the EU Network of socio-economic experts in the anti-discrimination field established and managed by Human European Consultancy
www.humanconsultancy.com and ÖSB Consulting GmbH for the European Commission.
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The interaction between racist discourse and the rise in racial violence: The far right attack against a multicultural Rainbow Festival in 2010 in Cyprus, Work Package 1 National Case Studies - Political Life, 2012/08, Overview of National Discourses on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity, Published by the European University Institute Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, ACCEPT PLURALISM 7th Framework Programme Project.
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The embodiment of tolerance in discourses and practices addressing cultural diversity in schools, Work Package 3, Published by the European University Institute Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, ACCEPT PLURALISM 7th Framework Programme Project, available
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Report on the Free Movement of Workers in Cyprus in 2011-2012, National Expert Report, European Network on Free Movement of Workers within the European Union coordinated by the University of Nijmegen's
Centre for Migration Law (under the European Commission's supervision)
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Shaping and Implementing Integration Policies: The Role of local and regional Authorities and Communities, Concept Note and Background/Discussion Paper, for the Expert Conference organised by the Ministry of Interior of Cyprus under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the EU, co-funded by the European Integration Fund of the European Union, Nicosia, 20 November 2012,
54.
Recognizing Knowledge, skills and Qualification Growth, Fairness as Equity as Global Democratic Challenges in the EU and Cyprus, Report paper presented at the
11th ASEM Conference of Directors-General of Immigration and Management of Migratory Flows, Nicosia, 30-31 October 2012 in Nicosia, during the Cyprus Presidency.
55.“Barriers and Obstacles to Social Inclusion and Youth Participation”, Paper as keynote researcher speaker at the
Youth Conference and DD Youth Meeting, 11-13 September 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus.
56. Social and employment situation in Cyprus, Briefing Note requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (IP/A/EMPL/NT/2012-001July 2012 PE 492.43)
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Assessment of the Implementation and Impact of the “Scientific Visa” Package: Cyprus Country Report, June 2011, on behalf of ICMPD - International Centre for Migration and Policy Development, for the project“Support for a monitoring system on national policies on human resources in research and on their effects at the level of research organization”, tender No. RTD-2010-S134-205089
58.Report on the views and attitudes of Cypriots towards migrants, University of Nicosia, co-author of Report in research by the consortium (2010) «Έρευνα για τις απόψεις και αντιλήψεις των ενηλίκων Κυπρίωνπολιτών απέναντι στους μετανάστες ΥΤΧ», ΕΠ 2008 του Ταμείου Ένταξης ΥΤΧ.
59.Report on the Free Movement of Workers in Cyprus in 2010-2011, National Expert Report for the European Network on Free Movement of Workers within the European Union coordinated by the University of Nijmegen's
Centre for Migration Law under the European Commission's supervision.
60.Report on the Free Movement of Workers in Cyprus in 2009-2010, National Expert Report for the European Network on Free Movement of Workers within the European Union coordinated by the University of Nijmegen's
Centre for Migration Law under the European Commission's supervision.
61.Report on the Free Movement of Workers in Cyprus in 2008-2009, National Expert Report for the European Network on Free Movement of Workers within the European Union coordinated by the University of Nijmegen's
Centre for Migration Law under the European Commission's supervision.
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Code of conduct on combating discrimination on the ground of disability at the workplace, commissioned by the national Equality Body – co-authored with Corina Demetriou, April 2010.
63.‘Investing in people: Good practices by banks and credit institutions for the integration of migrants and refugees – Report on Cyprus, submitted in the Framework of the INTI Project INVIP (Contract no. JLS/2006/INTI/098) 2009.
64.“The Migrant Narratives - The case of Cyprus”, Working Paper 3, Prospects for Integration of Migrants from “Third countries” and their Labour Market Situations: Towards Policies and Action (PRIMTS), Funded by European Commission, European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals “Community Actions” 2007, Directorate-General Freedom, Security and Justice, April 2010 [co-authored with Mihaela Fulias-Souroulla].
65.“Analysis of data on (un)employment of 'third country nationals' and of industry and service sectors where they work The case of Cyprus”, Working Paper 2, Prospects for Integration of Migrants from “Third countries” and their Labour Market Situations: Towards Policies and Action (PRIMTS), Funded by European Commission, European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals “Community Actions” 2007, Directorate-General Freedom, Security and Justice, April 2009.
66.“Mapping and evaluating migration and integration policies - The case of Cyprus”, Working Paper 3, Prospects for Integration of Migrants from “Third countries” and their Labour Market Situations: Towards Policies and Action (PRIMTS), Funded by European Commission, European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals “Community Actions” 2007, Directorate-General Freedom, Security and Justice, October 2009.
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General Overview Report for Cyprus, June-December 2008,Voice for All, project led by the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE Malta) and another three partners: Simfiliosi (Cyprus), Dipartimento per le Pari Opportunita (Italy), Institute For Conflict Research (N. Ireland), was funded by the Employment and Social Solidarity- PROGRESS (2007-2013).
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Good practices in Cyprus, June-December 2008, Voice for All, project led by the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE Malta) and another three partners: Simfiliosi (Cyprus), Dipartimento per le Pari Opportunita (Italy), Institute For Conflict Research (N. Ireland), funded by the Employment and Social Solidarity- PROGRESS (2007-2013).
69.Violence against Children, Young People and Women: Ways of implementing the EU directives on violence against women, children and youth: good practices and recommendations, Cyprus. Daphne II - Leading partner: University of Ljubljana, Financed by the European Commissions’ Contract no. JLS/2006/DAP-1/184WYC 30-CE-0123839/00-09 [with Corina Demetriou]
70.“Cyprus”, Anna Platonova and Giuliana Urso (eds.)
Migration, Employment and Labour Market Integration Policies in the European Union, Migration and the Labour Markets in the European Union (2000-2009) International Organization for Migration, Brussels, pp. 47-54. 2010