10/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Social Affairs Committee has expressed its deep concern that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has deteriorated still further as a result of the ongoing military operations in Gaza, and urged all parties to the hostilities, in particular Israel, to reach an immediate, permanent and...
06/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“We must never turn a blind eye to the abuse of children, whether they have been victims of sexual predators, gratuitous violence or ill-treatment in public, private or religious institutions that are supposed to be safe havens,” today said Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), the newly elected...
05/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold a conference on 6 December in Strasbourg on “The Council of Europe's fight against child abuse in institutions in Europe”, in collaboration with the Swiss...
05/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
As part of the “Parliamentary Action for Children's Rights 2024-2027” project, the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development is organising two events in Rome on 9 and 10 December 2024. On 9 December in Rome, the Committee is organising a seminar in collaboration with...
17/09/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is urging steps to ensure accessible, sustainable and adequate food for all – including enshrining a “right to food” in national constitutions and giving priority to a coherent legal framework to make food distribution, processing and marketing systems fairer and more stable...
16/09/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, meeting in Lisbon on 13 September, congratulated the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) for “its flexible and tailored support to its member states” in the context of the pandemic and natural disasters, and for the rapid...
13/06/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
An Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau travelled to Geneva to meet several international organisations (UNICEF, UNHCR, OHCHR) on 13 June 2024 to discuss the situation of refugee, displaced and deported children of Ukraine. On this occasion, the President of the Assembly had a bilateral meeting with...
05/06/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is urging Council of Europe member states to act “rapidly and with determination” on existing environmental standards and practices, from a less anthropocentric perspective and taking into account recent legal developments in environmental matters. The Assembly’s Social Affairs...
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...