24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
Despite international pledges to work towards ending child labour in all its forms, the latest figures show a “worsening global situation”, according to PACE’s Standing Committee – with some 79 million children worldwide, between 5 and 17, working in hazardous conditions. Approving a report by...
24/05/2024 | Standing Committee
PACE’s Standing Committee has urged a move away from a “discriminatory and stigmatising” legal approach which allows the involuntary detention of persons belonging to certain categories, such as those with psychiatric disorders. “These persons have been referred to as ‘socially maladjusted...
24/04/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Despite international pledges to work towards ending child labour in all its forms, the latest figures show a “worsening global situation”, according to PACE’s Social Affairs Committee – with some 79 million children worldwide, between 5 and 17, working in hazardous conditions. Approving a report...
27/03/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, meeting on 25 March in Paris, deplored the fact that the Council of Europe is now the only regional human rights system which has not yet formally recognised the right to a healthy environment. It welcomed the fact that the 4th...
25/03/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Seas and oceans are at the crossroads of human and environmental vulnerabilities. Preserving their health is in the direct interest of humankind,” today said the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. Adopting a draft resolution prepared by Yuliia Ovchynnykova...
25/03/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is calling for laws to protect children by reducing their exposure to harmful content online while not infringing on their opportunities to benefit from the internet. The Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee, approving a draft resolution and recommendation on the basis of a report...
15/12/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) hearing on the situation of the children of Ukraine will take place in Paris on 15 December 2023. The meeting, which will be live-streamed, will be opened at 9.30 a.m. by PACE President Tiny Kox and PACE Vice-President Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, EC...
15/12/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“We politicians have a duty to take action, to support the children of Ukraine and their future, in host countries and within Ukraine. And we also have a duty to make every possible effort to help the return of deported and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children,” PACE President Tiny Kox said at...
06/12/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
According to the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, the abuse of children in institutions in Europe must be recognised, whether they have been victims of sexual predators, gratuitous violence or ill-treatment in public, private or religious institutions. Ignoring...
17/10/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC), Chairperson of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, and Theodoros Rousopoulos (Greece, EPP/CD), Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, today made the following statement: “Children are the ones who...
13/10/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is calling for human rights to be placed back at the heart of medical supply chains – pointing out that the current system for supplying drugs and other medical products is both ineffective, resulting in shortages, and discriminatory. “Medical products cannot be governed by...
10/10/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
As part of Pink October, the Network of Parliamentarians for a Healthy Environment and the Women@PACE group will hold an exchange of views on “Breast cancer and the right to a healthy environment”, in the margins of the PACE plenary session. Professor Carole Mathelin – an obstetrician...