18/09/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“Palliative care should be available not just to patients at their end-of-life stage, but also to those who are seriously ill and chronically ill,” said the committee, which expressed concern about insufficient access to pain relief.
18/09/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Recalling that human organs must not be bought or sold or give rise to financial gain, the Committee on Social Affairs expressed concern about the Global Kidney Exchange concept.
18/09/2018 | Election observation
A delegation headed by Dame Cheryl Gillan is to make a pre-electoral visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 19 to 21 September to assess the election campaign and political climate ahead of the 7 October general elections.
18/09/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“The principle of the anonymity of human gamete donors is put into question by changes in society and in certain European legal instruments and by the evolution of genetic technology,” said Petra De Sutter, at a hearing in Lisbon.
17/09/2018 | President
Liliane Maury Pasquier, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will address the opening of the Second Eurasian Women’s Forum in Saint Petersburg on 20-21 September.
17/09/2018 | Election observation
A PACE delegation headed by Andrej Hunko will make a pre-electoral visit to Georgia from 19 to 20 September to assess the election campaign and political climate ahead of the 28 October Presidential election.
17/09/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee reaffirmed the key role of decentralisation in ensuring better responsiveness of public services to local needs, promoting the responsible exercise of power and strengthening confidence in public authorities.
14/09/2018 | Monitoring
The Monitoring Committee of the PACE will organise a joint seminar with the Georgian parliament on “Parliamentary oversight and the role of the opposition” in Tbilisi on 17 September 2018.
14/09/2018 | President
"Democracy and political life are facing new challenges in an increasingly digital world", said Liliane Maury Pasquier, PACE President, on the occasion of the International Day of Democracy.
12/09/2018 | President
“Health for all – that was the slogan that came out of the Alma Ata Declaration,” PACE President Liliane Maury Pasquier said today, paying tribute to this major milestone which set a new agenda for human rights in global health.
12/09/2018 | President
“The sentencing of the former co-President of the pro-Kurdish HDP party Selahattin Demirtaş and former HDP parliamentarian Sırrı Süreyya Önder to several years’ imprisonment is of particular concern to me,“said Liliane Maury Pasquier.
12/09/2018 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“The Internet is not only a place of democracy and open debate but also a place where discourse is deliberately manipulated, where fake news is knowingly disseminated on a large scale”, rapporteur Frithjof Schmidt stressed.