05/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold a conference on 6 December in Strasbourg on “The Council of Europe's fight against child abuse in institutions in Europe”, in collaboration with the Swiss...
05/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
As part of the “Parliamentary Action for Children's Rights 2024-2027” project, the PACE Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development is organising two events in Rome on 9 and 10 December 2024. On 9 December in Rome, the Committee is organising a seminar in collaboration with...
05/12/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“The negative narrative around age and ageing in society needs to be challenged and changed in order to counter age-based stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination,” the PACE Committee on Equality said today. Older persons experience “age-based discrimination in all areas of life, especially in...
05/12/2024 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Addressing the plenary meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino), Antonio Gutiérrez Limones (Spain, SOC), stressed the importance of the relationship between the European and Latin American regions, and made a call to relaunch the Cooperation Agreement between the...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
“History education should be a key part of human rights education and a foundation for young people to develop democratic citizenship,” the PACE Committee on Culture said today. However, “delivering quality history education in schools can be very challenging due to overloaded curricula...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
PACE's Committee on Culture today called on Council of Europe member states to review their legislation to better safeguard the right to freedom of expression on social media. They should in particular, it said, “require that social media uphold users’ fundamental rights, including freedom of...
04/12/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“The Parliamentary Assembly has long been a leader in the promotion of the rights of LGBTI persons and in calling for their protection,” said PACE Secretary General Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis at the opening of a conference in Strasbourg on violence and discrimination against LBQ women...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on Governance and Ethics in Sport, today made the following statement: “On 11 December FIFA is set to decide on the host country for the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Saudi Arabia is the only candidate, following a rather opaque process. Unfortunately...
04/12/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), and General Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and whistleblowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), have reacted to the arrest of Rufat Safarov by the Azerbaijani...
04/12/2024 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
In a letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the Chair of the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media Linda Hofstad Helleland (Norway, EPP/CD) has underlined the importance of ensuring the highest standards in the protection of human rights at the 2034 World Cup. "As one of the...
03/12/2024 | Prizes
The 2025 Council of Europe Museum Prize has been awarded to Euskararen Etxea (the House of the Basque Language) in Bilbao, Spain. The museum was selected by the Culture Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting today. The House of the Basque Language is a...
02/12/2024 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
“Positions of leadership must be open and accessible to persons with disabilities at political, economic and societal level. This is essential to securing sustainable change,” said Mariia Mezentseva-Fedorenko, Chairperson of the PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, in a statement on...