02/10/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
For the second year in a row, the committee organised a breast cancer awareness raising event. The PACE President and dozens of its members showed their support to the event by wearing the pink ribbon.
22/09/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Council of Europe Flag of honour was awarded to the Italian municipality of Farnese on 21 September. José Mendes Bota presented this distinction to the European committed municipality of Farnese.
22/09/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Council of Europe Flag of honour will be awarded to the German municipality of Gotha (Thüringen) on 26 September. Marlene Rupprecht, will present this distinction which recognizes European efforts of this city.
22/09/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The town of Borken, in the German Land of Hessen, is to be awarded the Council of Europe Plaque of Honour on 3 October. Marlene Rupprecht will hand over the prize.
26/08/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Victor Ruffy, Honorary Member of the PACE and former Swiss Deputy, will present the Council of Europe Flag of Honour to the Ukrainian town of Ternopil on Thursday 28 August at 4 p.m.
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.