07/10/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Adopting a draft resolution on ‘Good governance of large metropolises’, the Committee called on governments to create legislative settings that facilitate citizen participation at the local level.
07/10/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee welcomed the draft Council of Europe Convention against trafficking in human organs, but regretted that the text focuses on the criminal aspects rather than on prevention and co-operation.
04/10/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A video clip aimed at breaking the silence that surrounds child sexual abuse, will be presented during a series of events in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 11 to 14 October as part of the Council of Europe 'ONE in FIVE' Campaign.
04/10/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“The PACE resolution on ‘Children’s right to physical integrity’ in no way compares the 'circumcision of boys' to 'female genital mutilation',” declared Marlene Rupprecht.
03/10/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee organised on 2nd October a breast cancer awareness raising day. Dozens of members of the Assembly showed their support to the event by wearing the pink ribbon distributed.
11/09/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Europe Prize is to be presented to the German town of Altötting – joint Prizewinner in 2013 along with the Hungarian town of Tata – at a ceremony in the town on Saturday 14 September.
27/06/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"Some parents, often with the best of intentions, give their consent to medically unjustified operations or interventions, which may have serious consequences for the physical integrity of their children", rapporteur Marlene Rupprecht said.
11/06/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Improving measures to help children report abuse happening within their “circle of trust” was one of the main challenges to emerge during a conference in Baku on the implementation in Azerbaijan of the ONE in FIVE campaign.
06/06/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A delegation will travel to Baku on 11 June for a parliamentary conference on ‘The well-being of children as an indicator for the well-being of society’, in the framework of the implementation in Azerbaijan of the ONE-in-FIVE campaign.
04/06/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"There can be no food security without food safety. Risk assessment is only the first step. Science by itself cannot ensure food safety; it has to be accompanied by effective policies”...
03/06/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a report on equal access to health care adopted unanimously by the Social Affairs Committee, the rapporteur Jean-Louis Lorrain (France EPP/CD) complains about the level of fraud and corruption, and calls for measures to combat corruption.
31/05/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"Child protection and children’s well-being across the world, including in Europe, are far from being ensured at the beginning of the 21st century", said Stella Kyriakides, General Rapporteur on Children speaking on the eve of International Children’s Day.