28/11/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Great efforts are made to provide better support to families and protect children, but these efforts need to be pursued and stepped up,” today stressed Valeriu Ghiletchi (Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD), First Vice-Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, reporting on the situation in his country.
28/11/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE delegation, headed by Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, met with Margaret Chan, Director General of the WHO and her colleagues in Geneva yesterday. They agreed to intensify co-operation on issues of common interest, in particular on equal access to health care and universal health coverage.
20/11/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
At the meeting they held in Moscow on the occasion of Universal Children's Day the parliamentarians undertook to ensure that their countries put in place a sound legislative framework to outlaw sexual violence against children, including by people within the child’s circle of trust.
19/11/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
As the debate intensifies between those for and against nanotechnology, PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development proposed today that the Council of Europe should draw up legal standards which would be designed to protect citizens, while encouraging the potential beneficial use of nanotechnology.
19/11/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In connection with a report by Bernard Marquet (Monaco, ALDE), the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has considered the preliminary draft Council of Europe Convention against trafficking in organs in order to propose a number of additional provisions, as well as the preparation of a roadmap for an Additional Protocol on trafficking in human tissues and cells.
14/11/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE will convene its network of contact parliamentarians to stop sexual violence against children on 20 November in Moscow on the occasion of International Children's Rights Day. The discussion directed at the topic of “sexual abuse inflicted on children within the circle of trust” will enable the parliamentarians to strengthen prevention and protection policies as well as sanctions at national level.
24/10/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), who chairs PACE’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, has called on the Greek authorities to modify two 2010 reforms to Greek labour law recently judged illegal by the European Committee of Social Rights.
17/10/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“The rise in poverty and social exclusion is a threat to the full enjoyment of fundamental human rights by an increasing part of the population and a danger to the social cohesion of our societies,” today said Sir Alan Meale (United Kingdom, SOC) in Strasbourg, speaking on behalf of the PACE President in the Conference “Building Europe through Human Rights: Acting Together against Extreme Poverty”, on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
17/10/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Member states must set up robust procedures to enable local and regional authorities to take part in consultation processes,” confirmed Sir Alan Meale (United Kingdom, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on Local and Regional Authorities, in a plenary debate during the 23rd session of the Congress held in Strasbourg today.
07/09/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Social Affairs Committee has given its full backing to a European tax on financial transactions, urging that it should cover as many countries as possible – as a first step to a global tax – and should also be levied on derivatives trading and off-exchange transactions. The committee, adopting a draft resolution based on a report by Hermine Naghdalyan (Armenia, ALDE), also said ...
28/06/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has expressed concern at a recent amendment to Turkish law banning strikes in the airline sector, following the calling of a strike at Turkish Airlines, as well as the subsequent sacking of hundreds of striking airline workers.
23/05/2012 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a draft resolution adopted yesterday on “The young generation sacrificed: social, economic and political consequences of the financial crisis”, PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development notes that the young generation is disproportionally hit by the unemployment/underemployment-poverty-exclusion trap, a situation that could have tragic consequences. Young people should be viewed not as a problem to be addressed but as an asset,” said the rapporteur, Luca Volontè (Italy, EPP/CD).