13/05/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee encouraged governments and parliaments to step up their involvement in the implementation and monitoring of target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals, to end all forms of violence against children.
29/04/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Declaring clean air as “a basic human right”, PACE's Social Affairs Committee has urged states to reverse policies which favour or tolerate diesel vehicles, declaring them “a disaster from a public health perspective”.
11/04/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The 2019 Europe Prize, which is awarded each year by the PACE to the town most active in promoting the European ideal, has been awarded to Donostia/San Sebastián.
19/03/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Social Committee has spelled out the essential steps Europe’s cities should take to build inclusive and sustainable urban communities which fully meet a key UN development goal.
19/03/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs highlighted the decisive role of parliaments, local and regional authorities, citizens and civil society – in particular young people – in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
20/02/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Social Justice Day is a moment to pause and think about what our society should do so that all citizens can enjoy decent living conditions. I am convinced that basic income can be part of the answer,” said Stefan Schennach.
30/01/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Anonymity should be waived for all future human gamete donations in Europe”, the Committee on Social Affairs, said, adopting a draft recommendation with a view to a debate in the Assembly’s next session.
23/01/2019 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee launched a new publication on the MEDICRIME Convention (Council of Europe Convention on the counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes involving threats to public health).
13/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs is launching a competition for the attention of art, design or architecture students from one of the Organisation’s 47 member States to create a new Trophy for the Europe Prize.
04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs reiterated the Council of Europe’s call for “a ban on establishing a pregnancy using germ-line cells or human embryos which have undergone intentional genome editing”.
04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Adolescents should participate in decisions about relevant health policies “for meeting their needs and developing efficient health systems”, the Committee on Social Affairs and Health said today.
04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee called on Council of Europe member States to carry out an in-depth evaluation of existing domestic legal and policy measures for workplace stress prevention, management and reduction.