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...
10/10/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“The environment clearly has an impact on the development of breast cancer,” said Professor Carole Mathelin, a Hospital Practitioner specialising in breast cancer surgery, who has developed a research project to establish the link between the environment and breast cancer. She was speaking at an...
21/09/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Addictive behaviours in children can have a “disastrous” impact on their mental and physical health and their development, PACE’s Social Affairs Committee has pointed out, urging innovative new policies to prevent early addiction, more research, increased cooperation with the digital industry...
20/09/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Unanimously adopting a draft recommendation, based on the report prepared by Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development urged member States to impose a comprehensive ban on “establishing a pregnancy with germline cells, their...
20/09/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The restrictions imposed to combat the Covid-19 pandemic have had “a devastating effect” on the mental health and well-being of children and young adults – affected in particular by disruption in education, social isolation and economic instability – according to the Committee on Social Affairs...
31/08/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE rapporteur Pierre-Alain Fridez (Switzerland, SOC) will carry out a fact-finding visit to Bucharest from 4-5 September 2023, in the context of the preparation of his report entitled “Child abuse in Europe: addressing it, compensation and prevention”. The aim of the visit is to promote Swiss...