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The situation of the children of Ukraine: an Ad hoc Committee of the Bureau travelled to Geneva

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...

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States urged to act for ‘future generations’ on environmental and other rights

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...

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PACE Standing Committee urges fresh efforts to end child labour

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...

Deinstitutionalisation of people with disabilities

Standing Committee urges move away from ‘discriminatory and stigmatising’ approach to the involuntary...

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...

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PACE committee urges fresh efforts to end child labour, which is ‘worsening’ worldwide

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...

PACE committee backs Council of Europe strategy on the environment and recommends drawing up a binding...

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...

PACE committee targets the climate crisis with strategies for healthy seas and oceans

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...

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PACE committee urges new laws to protect children online

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...

Ukrainian children deported or forcibly transferred to the Russian Federation, Belarus, or territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation
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PACE hearing on the situation of the children of Ukraine

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...

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'We have a duty to make every possible effort to help the return of deported and forcibly transferred...

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...

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Committee calls for recognition of child abuse in institutions in Europe, following Swiss good practice

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...

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East: protect the children

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...