04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The Committee on Social Affairs reiterated the Council of Europe’s call for “a ban on establishing a pregnancy using germ-line cells or human embryos which have undergone intentional genome editing”.
04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Adolescents should participate in decisions about relevant health policies “for meeting their needs and developing efficient health systems”, the Committee on Social Affairs and Health said today.
04/12/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The committee called on Council of Europe member States to carry out an in-depth evaluation of existing domestic legal and policy measures for workplace stress prevention, management and reduction.
19/11/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
“One in five children are victims of sexual abuse or violence, and in the field of sport, children are particularly vulnerable,” Liliane Maury Pasquier said today, at an event organised by PACE's Social Affairs Committee.
06/11/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Believing that territorial solidarity was “a matter of democratic security”, Mr. Grin said that it was impossible to ensure the prosperity of certain regions to the detriment of others, addressing the Congress today.
18/10/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Children in sports are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse and parliaments should therefore intensify their efforts to better protect the children concerned. Parliamentarians discussed an action plan to combat this phenomenon.
18/10/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
PACE members meeting at a major gathering of sports ministers have proposed ten key steps to protect children against sexual abuse, crack down on corruption and help sport uphold its core values for human rights.
12/10/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
The best way to protect the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities with regard to involuntary measures in psychiatry is to "avoid such measures in the first place," says Reina de Bruijn-Wezeman in a new memo.
09/10/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Rapporteur on the health needs of adolescents in Europe, Baroness Doreen Massey, has urged governments to take urgent action to deal with a growing mental health crisis among the young.
19/09/2018 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
A PACE committee has spelled out a series of steps governments should take to improve the safety of nuclear power stations in Europe – and minimise the risk of accidents or terror attacks.
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
“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.