21/09/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee is concerned by the scope of tax avoidance and evasion, as illustrated by the “Panama Papers” scandal, which exposed how shadow companies and secret accounts are used to hide taxable income and assets in tax havens”.
21/07/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE rapporteur Sevinj Fataliyeva has called on European governments to develop more effective policies against political and religious radicalisation amongst young or marginalised people with foreign backgrounds.
07/07/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A delegation led by Pedro Agramunt and the Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize, Jean-Claude Frécon, presented the Europe Prize to the Mayor of Girona, the Prize-winner for 2016, on Friday 8 July.
23/06/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
At a ceremony today at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Stella Kyriakides and Jean-Claude Frécon awarded the European Diploma 2016 to the mayors of the 12 winning municipalities.
03/06/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs is seeking to mobilise parliaments, governments, media, families and professionals in the advertising, education and child-minding sectors against the over-sexualisation of children.
03/06/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a report unanimously adopted, the committee urges member states to earmark 10% of their expenditure on road infrastructure for road safety. Naira Karapetyan was of the opinion that road safety should become a public health priority.
06/05/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A three-year Council of Europe pilot project in Cyprus to strengthen policies against sexual abuse of children has been hailed as “a great example” for the rest of Europe. Stella Kyriakides presented the results in Strasbourg.
18/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Addressing the Interparliamentary Conference on the European Social Charter, Michele Nicoletti, President of the Italian delegation, warned that the real danger today were internal fears and divisions and not external threats.
18/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter, Tuur Elzinga stressed that "in many European countries, the state of income inequalities is shocking and leads to a marginalisation of certain categories of the population".
16/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A committee has called for the withdrawal of a draft Council of Europe legal text on the involuntary placement and treatment of people with mental health problems on the ground that its basic premise is “discriminatory”.
15/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A committee has called for urgent exploration of new ways of facing international health crises – including an “empowered, well-governed and accountable” WHO and efficient national health systems.
15/03/2016 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Social Affairs Committee, meeting in Paris, has spelled out a series of measures to prevent the radicalisation of children by fighting the root causes of what may draw them towards violent extremism.