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.
13/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a draft resolution unanimously adopted in Nicosia, the committee called on the Development Bank to strengthen its ties with the Council of Europe. The CEB should further maximise the social added-value of its projects.
12/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee, meeting today in Nicosia, urged member States to reduce inequalities in diagnosis, screening and treatment of breast cancer, and ensure that patients have the level of care that they are entitled to.
12/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A guaranteed minimum income is an important element in reducing the social effects of the economic crisis, members of PACE's Social Affairs Committee were told at a meeting in Nicosia.
09/05/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Parliamentarians will meet in Nicosia (Cyprus) on 13 May 2014 to discuss how to create the right conditions for reporting and successfully prosecuting child sexual abuse cases.
15/04/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Two key PACE rapporteurs appealed to their fellow Iraqi parliamentarians not to vote a bill called the “Jaafari law”, which would legalise forced and child marriage and marital rape.
10/04/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In unanimously adopting the report by Valeriu Ghiletchi, the committee calls on the Committee of Ministers to extend the ONE in FIVE Campaign for a further year, until November 2015, in order to reap the maximum benefits.
10/04/2014 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The 2014 Europe Prize – the highest level of the Prize which is awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly to the town most active in promoting the European ideal – has been awarded to the town of Słupsk in Poland.