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.
02/05/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Reacting to the death on Monday 30 April of a 5 year-old girl who had been raped two weeks earlier in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, Stella Kyriakides (Cyprus, EPP/CD) and José Mendes Bota (Portugal, EPP/CD) declared themselves worried about the fact that full protection of their life and safety is by far not guaranteed to all girls and women throughout the world...
10/04/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), Chair of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will undertake a fact-finding visit to Athens on 12-13 April in preparation for the report by Jean-Louis Lorrain (France, EPP/CD) on “Equal access to health care”.
18/03/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Council of Europe member states should enact laws enabling them to prosecute “child sex tourists” for acts committed abroad, PACE’s Social Affairs Committee has said, approving a report on the topic today at its meeting in Berlin.
15/03/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Working with people who have the potential to become abusers to stop them ever harming children and setting up “children’s houses” for child-friendly justice were among a number of innovative approaches to tackling child sex abuse discussed at a meeting of PACE’s ONE in FIVE network in Berlin yesterday.
11/03/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
What child protection strategies can be introduced at the national level to effectively fight sexual violence against children? This theme will be debated at the 12th meeting of the Network of Contact Parliamentarians to stop sexual violence against children on Thursday 14 March 2013 at the Bundestag in Berlin.
11/03/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
On Friday 15 March, PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development will be holding a hearing on “Energy diversification as a fundamental contribution to sustainable development” at the Bundestag in Berlin.
06/02/2013 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Female genital mutilation is a serious form of violence against women and girls, as recognised by the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence,” declared today José Mendes Bota (Portugal, EPP/CD), PACE general rapporteur on violence against women, and Marlene Rupprecht (Germany, SOC), general rapporteur on children.