05/07/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Selin Sayek Böke (Türkiye, SOC), the Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, has issued the following statement today: “The death of a 17-year-old boy in France, shot by a policeman at a routine traffic stop, is both profoundly shocking and heart...
22/05/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Social Affairs Committee estimates that there are around 4 to 5 million undocumented people in Europe, many of whom de facto participate in the labour market as “invisible workers” but remain very fragile socio-economically – with poor or no access to socio-economic rights. By accepting the...
27/04/2023 | Session
According to PACE, trade should be greener and fairer: all trade and investment agreements should contain “comprehensive provisions on sustainable development and protection of fundamental rights”, with strong enforcement which is commensurate with protecting investors. Unanimously approving a...
27/04/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, "new public health emergencies linked to the climate crisis, coupled with dwindling biodiversity, are waiting to unfold, and will likely hit the world unexpectedly", the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable underlined. Unanimously adopting a draft...
26/04/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The 2023 Europe Prize has been awarded to Bolesławiec in Poland. This award is given annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to the town most actively promoting the European ideal. Bolesławiec is a city of 90 000 inhabitants in western Poland, at the crossroads of...
26/04/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Assembly’s Parliamentary Network for a Healthy Environment has urged Council of Europe leaders – meeting at the Reykjavik Summit in three weeks – to place the protection of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment high on their agenda. “Governments should seize this...
11/04/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Ending a three-day visit to Türkiye, Simon Moutquin (Belgium, SOC), PACE’s rapporteur on political strategies to prevent, prepare for, and face the consequences of natural disasters, has urged European political leaders to intensify solidarity with the victims: “We must stand by the people of...
17/03/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
New trade and investment agreements should contain comprehensive provisions on sustainable development and the protection of fundamental rights, with strong enforcement which is commensurate with protecting investors, PACE’s Social Affairs Committee has said. Approving a report by Geraint Davies...
17/03/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
At a time when major hazards are becoming more numerous and more violent because of the Anthropocene, the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development called on States to be aware of the need to prevent, anticipate, take into account and monitor natural disasters, and to...
26/01/2023 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In a declaration unanimously adopted today, the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development expressed its concern about the potential commodification of substances of human origin in the context of the development and production of new therapeutic options, and their...
02/12/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The severe destruction or deterioration of nature “that could be qualified as ecocide” may occur in times of peace or war. It is therefore “necessary to codify this notion in both national legislations, as appropriate, and international law” the PACE Committee on Social Affairs said today, while...
17/11/2022 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Stadium, a powerful new short film which aims to raise awareness of sexual violence against children in sport, has been launched by PACE to coincide with the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Launched on the eve of the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation...