11/12/2024 | Elections
PACE member Lord Blencathra (United Kingdom, EC/DA) unveiled PACE's newly-created Network of Election Observers during the 2024 Annual Implementation Meeting for Endorsers of the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation. The event, hosted by ODIHR in Gdańsk, Poland, was...
10/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development deplores the fact that the millions of patients suffering from “long Covid” have become “a huge blind spot”, as policymakers and the healthcare sector focus on other health issues. It regrets that no solution has yet been...
10/12/2024 | Prizes
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is inviting designers and graphic artists to submit designs for a plaque and logo for its recently launched “Human Rights in Motion” Award, a quarterly prize for the director of a documentary film that best promotes human rights or...
10/12/2024 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) today expressed their deep concern about the arrests and pretrial detentions of opposition and protests leaders as well as the raiding of their offices by the police, reportedly on...
10/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE’s Social Affairs Committee has expressed its deep concern that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has deteriorated still further as a result of the ongoing military operations in Gaza, and urged all parties to the hostilities, in particular Israel, to reach an immediate, permanent and...
06/12/2024 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“We must never turn a blind eye to the abuse of children, whether they have been victims of sexual predators, gratuitous violence or ill-treatment in public, private or religious institutions that are supposed to be safe havens,” today said Saskia Kluit (Netherlands, SOC), the newly elected...
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...
05/12/2024 | President
Addressing the Interparliamentary Conference on Cultural Heritage and the Identity of National Communities in Budapest, the PACE President today recalled the importance of the Council of Europe mechanisms and legal instruments in terms of protection and promotion of national minorities and...
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...