5.1 take account of
Resolution 1502 (2006) on
demographic challenges for social cohesion in the Council of Europe’s
work regarding social affairs in the broadest sense of the term,
and in particular:
5.1.1 ask the
Steering Committee on Social Cohesion (CDCS) to support a more family-friendly
environment, in order to address the ongoing changes and the “de-institutionalisation”
of the family structure, and to stimulate the implementation of
policies for promoting active ageing, in order to guarantee intergenerational
equilibrium;
5.1.2 ask the European Committee on Migration (CDMG) to accelerate
the development of effective, integrated policies to prevent the
discrimination and social exclusion of immigrants; and seek to guarantee
the basic rights of those individuals and groups in society that
are at particular risk of becoming vulnerable;
5.2 ensure that any work in this sector can draw upon relevant
demographic data and, in this connection, ensure the availability
of the European Population Network of the Council of Europe, inter alia
for the regular publication of studies on European population trends;
5.3 continue to ensure access by policy makers to information
on future demographic processes, and the consequences for the design
of their medium- and long-term social policies;
5.4 make the work and findings of the European Population
Conference 2005 available to member states and other socio-economic
partners and institutions for their work on the actions carried
out in the areas covered by the conference;
5.5 re-assess the relations between the Council of Europe’s
work in different areas and the need for adequate demographic background
studies, and take steps to support such studies;
5.6 encourage national statistical organisations and demographic
institutes to periodically conduct nation-wide specialised sample
surveys in order to collect the information required to study the
effects of relevant factors, including policy measures, on demographic
processes;
5.7 encourage closer co-operation among the international
research institutions dispersed around Europe for analysing and
monitoring population developments and population-related policies
in view of the need for broader, more sophisticated scientific discussions
on these trends;
5.8 promote the collection, dissemination and use of demographic
data at local and regional level, especially for use in defining
social cohesion policies;
5.9 invite all the intergovernmental bodies and programmes
of the Council of Europe to use and properly exploit available statistical
information on population trends and developments where relevant. The
annual publication of the Council of Europe entitled Recent demographic
developments in Europe should be maintained, supported and reinforced
in this perspective.
