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Cyprus Special Olympics team wins football gold in Hungary

Cyprus’s Special Olympics football team returned home on Monday with a gold medal after finishing first in Group B...
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Police investigating video showing minor with disability urged to expose himself

Police said they are investigating "with particular seriousness" a case involving audiovisual material, apparently livestreamed via a social media...
Economy

Major disability benefit reform launched with €106 million funding boost and gradual expansion

A major legislative reform concerning the Social Participation, Inclusion, and Independent Living of Persons with Disabilities has entered...
Economy

New allowances and higher payments approved for people with disabilities

The Council of Ministers has approved the phased implementation of the Law on Social Participation, Inclusion and Independent Living...
Economy

Care allowances frozen for seven years as cost-of-living crisis hits disabled Cypriots hard

The Cyprus Paraplegic Organisation is calling for an immediate increase of at least 30% in care allowances for people...
Economy

Disability benefits to be increased across-the-board

The government intends to announce across-the-board increases to all disability-related benefits within the coming days, President Nikos Christodoulides has...
Local

State denies scrapping blind persons’ grant, accuses disability Organisation for misinformation

Cyprus's Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare has rejected claims that a monthly grant for blind persons is being scrapped,...
Local

Blind grant suspension leaves at least 15 people without support, organisation warns

Fifteen blind people in Cyprus have been left without their monthly state grant after the processing of new applications...
Local

School faces inquiry after mother alleges it was ordered she have male escort during visits

A Cyprus school is facing an Education Ministry investigation after a mother publicly alleged that its administration had ordered...
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Private school’s refusal to allow classroom assistant prompts call for law change

A Limassol private school's refusal to allow a certified classroom assistant for a child who needed one has prompted...
Local

Disability bill leaves thousands of disabled citizens behind, organisation warns

The Pancyprian Organisation of the Blind has condemned Cyprus's proposed disability legislation as a "massive fiasco," warning that thousands...
Local

MEP Fidias Panayiotou apologises for slur against Paralympic athletes

MEP Fidias Panayiotou issued a public apology on Tuesday after using a derogatory term to describe Paralympic athletes with...
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MPs move to end ‘legal vacuum’ for service dogs with steep fines for exclusion

The House Human Rights Committee is moving to close a legislative gap that has effectively barred thousands of disabled...
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