12/08/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Bayreuth was awarded today the Plaque of Honour of the Council of Europe. Edeltraud Gatterer, Honorary Member of the PACE and former Austrian Deputy has presented the Plaque to the Mayor.
28/07/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Whilst more and more children are dying and being wounded in Gaza, neither the two conflict parties, nor the international community are taking effective action to protect the most vulnerable in this conflict” said Stella Kyriakides.
23/07/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Łódź, the third largest city in Poland, will be awarded the Plaque of Honour of the Council of Europe on Friday 25 July. Edeltraud Gatterer, honorary member of the PACE and former Austrian Deputy will present the Plaque to the Mayor.
16/07/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Council of Europe Flag of Honour will be presented to the Polish municipality of Jabłonka on Sunday 20st July by Franciszek Adamczyk, PACE honorary member and former Chairman of the Committee on the Europe Prize.
11/07/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
"The adoption of the Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs this week is an excellent news,” declared today Liliane Maury Pasquier, Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on Public Health.
26/06/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
As PACE General Rapporteur for Children, I would like to express my grave concern over the imminent danger children are in, due to the existing situation in Eastern Ukraine, said today Stella Kyriakides.
26/06/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Axel E. Fischer, Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on the Europe Prize and Sir Alan Meale, former Chairperson, presented the 2014 European Diploma to the mayors of 15 prize-winning municipalities.
24/06/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee on Social Affairs has reasserted the need for a total ban on any form of trading in human organs, expressing concern at recent suggestions that “some form of commercialisation” could be envisaged.
23/06/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The 19th meeting of the PACE Network of Contact Parliamentarians to stop sexual violence against children will address the theme “Youth participation: a means of preventing sexual exploitation”.
20/06/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Council of Europe Flag of honour will be awarded to the Polish municipality of Bielsko-Biała on Saturday 21 June during its twin-town festival by the former Italian Senator and honorary Member of the PACE, Renzo Gubert.
12/06/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Council of Europe Flag of Honour will be awarded to the French municipality of Aix-en-Othe (Aube) on Saturday 14 June by Jean-Claude Frécon, French Senator of the Loire and member of the PACE.
13/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Despite the panoply of standards providing a well-established framework for modelling juvenile justice, there is a dissonance between the rhetoric of human rights discourse and the reality of juvenile justice interventions.