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A hearing highlights discrimination against people suffering from chronic and long-term illnesses

  • 22/09/2020
  • Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

“There is a wide variety of chronic and long-term illnesses – such as Lyme disease, Crohn's disease, or Charcot's disease – which cause physical disorders that are often disabling, impacting on society's perception of patients and preventing them from fully enjoying their rights and excluding... More

Leaving millions of labour migrants’ children without parental care is a violation of human rights

  • 22/09/2020
  • Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

PACE Social Affairs Committee has said it deplores the complacency of both countries of origin and destination concerning children who are “left behind” when their parents migrate abroad for work, potentially depriving them of support and protection. “Leaving millions of children without parental... More

Pope Francis receives President Rik Daems at private audience

  • 22/09/2020
  • President

During a private audience on 21 September with Pope Francis, PACE President Rik Daems shared with His Holiness his conviction that a healthy environment should be considered a human right, and his hope that this could eventually be enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights in the form... More

Azerbaijan: PACE rapporteurs welcome decision to release Tofig Yagublu to house arrest

  • 22/09/2020
  • Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Strasbourg, 22.09.2020 – Rapporteurs from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have welcomed the decision of the Baku Appeals Court to release jailed Azerbaijani opposition politician Tofig Yagublu into house arrest while he awaits a 28 September 2020 hearing in his case... More

PACE rapporteurs concerned about the situation of lawyers in Turkey

  • 22/09/2020
  • Monitoring

Rapporteurs from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have expressed their concern over the situation of lawyers in Turkey after a series of worrying developments – including last week’s decision of the Turkish Court of Cassation to uphold heavy prison sentences against 14... More

World of work: putting AI at the service of the human and not the opposite

  • 22/09/2020
  • Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development

“The world of work will be increasingly exposed to the spread of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with the particular risk that AI replaces humans in more jobs than it creates new ones,” said the Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development Committee, meeting today by... More