Androula Henriques

Androula Christofidou Henriques (Greek: Ανδρούλα Χριστοφίδου Ενρίκες; born 1936) is a Cypriot activist who campaigns against human trafficking.

Life Androula was born in Nicosia in 1936. She studied in child psychology in Geneva and worked under Jean Piaget in the University of Geneva. She wrote three books on the theories of Jean Piaget in pedagogy. She also lobbied the government of Cyprus to stop human trafficking. Her network organized an anti-trafficking conference in Cyprus in 2008 which included speakers from the United States and the EU, as well as representatives of the Police, the House of Representatives, the Attorney General's Office, the Turkish-Cypriot community, several NGOs, and many journalists. Additionally, she also founded in Geneva, ACEES (L’Association Contre L’ Exploitation et L’ Esclavage Sexuel). In 2012 she was appointed to the rank of Commander in the National Order of Merit by France's Ambassador to Cyprus, Jean-Luc Florent.

Publications

Henriques, A. (1990). Experiments in teaching. In: Duckworth, E., Easley, J., Hawkins, D. and Henriques, A. (eds.). Science education: A mind's-on approach for the elementary years. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,141–186.