17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
It is time to stop putting persons with disabilities into institutions, but rather to help them transition to supported independent living, says PACE’s Social Affairs Committee. Unanimously adopting a draft resolution, as well as a draft recommendation to governments, based on a report by Reina...
17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
According to the Committee on Social Affairs, extreme child poverty is far from being eradicated, and has even resumed its expansion before the covid-19 pandemic, confirming the collective failure of public policies to combat this phenomenon. The report by Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC...
17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
All digital devices should have easy-to-use parental controls and tools for filtering and blocking pornographic material built into them by default in order to combat children's exposure to adult content, the PACE Social Affairs Committee said. These control tools should be “systematically...
17/03/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Globalisation, digitalisation, new technologies and the Covid-19 pandemic have moved more and more people into hybrid and fully remote work (teleworking), but how should government policies and legal frameworks adapt to this new reality? How can the well-being of people at work be maintained when...
27/01/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE today launches a new Parliamentary Network for a Healthy Environment, bringing together almost 30 parliamentarians from some 20 different parliaments across the Council of Europe area to demand that governments create a legal right to a healthy environment and take other urgent steps to deal...
03/12/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee is calling for “a careful balance” to be struck between ensuring patients have access to the prescription medicines they need and preventing addiction to them. The Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, approving a draft resolution and...
03/12/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
It is time for governments and parliaments to ensure that children’s views are taken into account “whenever decisions affecting their lives are made”, a PACE committee has declared. The Assembly’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, approving a draft resolution and...
03/12/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The lack of action to tackle climate change is a violation of children's rights, according to the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, in particular with regard to “the right to life, development, health and medical care, education, a good standard of living, and...
01/12/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development expressed its concern about the rapidly evolving Covid-19 pandemic. Adopting a statement today unanimously, it recommended “global equitable distribution of vaccines”, which is vital to protect public health. “No-one is safe...
18/11/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
To mark End Child Sex Abuse Day (18 November 2021), the Council of Europe is launching a new short film which encourages children and young people to “break the silence” over sexual abuse within their circle of trust. Around a Lake, created by acclaimed French filmmaker Roland Edzard, is a follow...
09/09/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Social Affairs Committee is urging an ambitious new legal framework, both at national and European level, to “anchor the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment” – and has presented a draft of an additional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights which would...
09/09/2021 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Europe’s prosperity has been seemingly growing for decades but disparities have kept widening between and within countries. These inequalities not only negatively affect individuals and communities, but “also restrain overall economic development, undermine social justice, and hurt the...