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STANDING COMMITTEE

Vilnius, Lithuania

24 May 2024

TEXTS ADOPTED

BY THE ASSEMBLY

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Table of contents

Recommendations

Recommendation 2275 (2024)

Recommendation 2276 (2024)

Recommendation 2277 (2024)

Recommendation 2278 (2024)

Ending the detention of “socially maladjusted” persons (Doc.

15983)

Children in the world of work: eradicating harmful child labour (Doc.

15982)

Cultural heritage and climate change (Doc.

15926)

Quality education for children with special education needs: challenges of

the pandemic, war and digitalisation (Doc.

15984)

Resolutions

Resolution 2548 (2024)

Resolution 2549 (2024)

Resolution 2550 (2024)

Children in the world of work: eradicating harmful child labour (Doc.

15982)

Cultural heritage and climate change (Doc.

15926)

Quality education for children with special education needs: challenges of

the pandemic, war and digitalisation (Doc.

15984)

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Recommendations

2275 to 2278

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Recommendation 2275 (2024)

Provisional version

Ending the detention of “socially maladjusted” persons

Parliamentary Assembly

The right to liberty is one of the most fundamental human rights. It is guaranteed in Article 5 of the

European Convention on Human Rights (ETS No. 5, “the Convention”). However, the Convention includes a

limitation to the right to liberty specifically on the basis of mental impairment, drug or alcohol use, or not

having a fixed abode. With the formulation in Article 5 (1) (e), reportedly stemming from the eugenics

movement, “persons of unsound mind, alcoholics or drug addicts or vagrants” can be lawfully detained. These

persons have been referred to as “socially maladjusted”, including in the past by the European Court of

Human Rights, an approach that is considered discriminatory and stigmatising in the human rights community.

The Convention is the only international human rights treaty that excludes these groups from the full

enjoyment of the right to liberty. This is problematic as detaining such vulnerable persons effectively puts them

at higher risk of systematic rights violations, on the sole ground that they might hypothetically pose a danger

to others or that their own interest may necessitate their detention. The initial draft of the Convention did not

contain a reference to “socially maladjusted” persons – indeed, the Parliamentary Assembly, in 1949, had

recommended a text closer to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In the last 70 years, there has been a worldwide paradigm shift to a human rights-based approach, as

exemplified by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by all member

States of the Council of Europe except Liechtenstein. The United Nations interpretation of the rights of

persons with disabilities and the interpretation given by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities do not allow for the deprivation of liberty based on an actual or perceived disability. The

interpretation provided by the United Nations is, however, very seldom applied in the context of the European

Court of Human Rights, since the formulation of Article 5 (1) (e) does not oblige it to.

The idea of social control – whether of persons with psychosocial disabilities, of persons who use drugs

or alcohol, or of persons without a fixed abode – is not compatible with our 21st century understanding of

human rights. The Assembly underlines the urgent need for the Council of Europe, as the leading regional

human rights organisation, to fully integrate the worldwide paradigm shift to a modern human rights-based

approach in its work. The time has come to move away from the discriminatory concept of excluding certain

groups from human rights protection. The Assembly thus recommends that the Committee of Ministers:

4.1. support member States in taking the necessary steps for the full enjoyment of the right to liberty

by the groups referred to in Article 5 (1) (e) of the Convention, in co-operation with the European Union,

the United Nations and its agencies (in particular, the World Health Organization), non-governmental

organisations and organisations of persons with lived experience,

inter alia:

4.1.1. in removing discriminatory limitations on the full enjoyment of the right to liberty of the

groups referred to from their constitutions, their legislation and their policies;

4.1.2. in developing adequately funded, human rights-compliant strategies for

deinstitutionalisation with clear time frames and benchmarks with a view to a genuine transition

to independent living for persons with disabilities, mental health problems, and for persons who

use drugs or alcohol;

Text adopted by the Standing Committee,

acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 24 May 2024 (see

Doc. 15983,

report

of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, rapporteur: Mr Stefan Schennach).

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4.1.3. in running public awareness-raising campaigns, in order to overcome stereotypes and

prejudice surrounding persons with disabilities, with mental health problems, persons who use

drugs or alcohol or who do not have a fixed abode, and promote the full inclusion in society of

these persons;

4.2. call on the Council of Europe Development Bank, the World Bank and other social development

funds such as the European Structural and Investment Funds to support member States to allocate

adequate resources for support services that avoid the detention and/or institutionalisation of persons

with disabilities, mental health problems, or persons who use drugs or alcohol – such as the

strengthening, creating and maintaining of community-based services (including drug consumption

rooms, therapeutic communities and supportive living arrangements);

4.3. in line with the unanimously adopted

Recommendation 2158 (2019)

“Ending coercion in mental

health: the need for a human rights-based approach” and with

Recommendation 2227 (2022)

“Deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities”, adopt guidance to member States promoting

voluntary measures in mental healthcare services and pay due attention, in its further consideration of

the draft additional protocol to the Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the

Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and

Biomedicine (ETS No. 164, “Oviedo Convention”) concerning the protection of human rights and dignity

of persons with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment within mental healthcare

services, to ensuring that any Council of Europe guidance is fully in line with the Convention on the

Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the guidance of the United Nations and its agencies and the widely-

accepted best practice.

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Recommendation 2276 (2024)

Provisional version

Children in the world of work: eradicating harmful child labour

Parliamentary Assembly

The Parliamentary Assembly refers to its

Resolution 2548 (2024)

“Children in the world of work:

eradicating harmful child labour” highlighting the need for more effective action to end child labour by 2025 in

line with the commitment of member States of the Council of Europe under target 8.7 of the United Nations

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Urgent and co-ordinated action by member States is necessary at

national, European and international levels to meet this ambitious objective, using, amongst other, relevant

Council of Europe instruments that provide a protective legal framework for children. The Assembly moreover

strongly supports the Durban Call to Action which was adopted on 20 May 2022 at the 5th Global Conference

on the Elimination of Child Labour and considers that it should serve as a basis for member States’ action.

The Assembly therefore asks the Committee of Ministers to recommend to member and observer

States of the Council of Europe to:

2.1. take urgent action under the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child 2022-2027,

the European Social Charter (ETS Nos. 35 and 163), the European Convention on Human Rights (ETS

No. 5, Article 4 banning slavery and servitude), the Convention on the Protection of Children against

Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (CETS No. 201, Lanzarote Convention), the Convention on

Cybercrime (ETS No. 185, Budapest Convention), the Convention on Action against Trafficking in

Human Beings (CETS No. 197), as well as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,

the Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (Convention No. 182) of the International Labour

Organization and the Durban Call to Action in order to address the root causes of child labour and

effectively eradicate child labour, in particular the worst forms of exploitation of children through forced

work in sweatshops, sex industry, armed forces or criminal networks;

2.2.

accede to the above-mentioned legal instruments if they have not yet done so;

2.3. seize opportunities of co-operation with the European Union, the International Labour

Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International

Organization for Migration and the United Nations Children’s Fund with a view to accelerating global

action to eliminate child labour.

Text adopted by the Standing Committee,

acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 24 May 2024 (see

Doc. 15982,

report

of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, rapporteur: Ms Eka Sepashvili).

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Recommendation 2277 (2024)

Provisional version

Cultural heritage and climate change

Parliamentary Assembly

The Parliamentary Assembly referring to its

Resolution 2549 (2024)

“Cultural heritage and climate

change”, underlines the compelling need for climate action and for a radical shift towards carbon neutrality by

2050 to meet the ambition of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change alongside the global aspiration for

sustainable development embodied in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Both require a deep

transformation of society and a fundamental change of mindset.

In this context, the Assembly welcomes the commitment of Heads of State and Government made at

the Reykjavík Summit in May 2023 to strengthen the work of the Council of Europe on the human rights

aspects of the environment based on the political recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable

environment as a human right, as well as the decision to integrate a youth perspective in the work of the

Council of Europe.

In line with this global political agenda, the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of

Cultural Heritage for Society (ETS No. 199, “Faro Convention”) and Landscape Convention (ETS No. 176),

place cultural and natural heritage and culture in general at the centre of a new vision for sustainable

development.

For the Assembly, it is essential that all member States of the Council of Europe include cultural

heritage concerns in national strategies for mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The Assembly

considers that the Council of Europe should assist this process when required.

Therefore, the Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:

5.1. encourage transversal co-operation of the culture, heritage, education and youth sectors in the

field of sustainability and climate action, to support the implementation of:

5.1.1. guiding principles for an integrated approach to culture, nature and landscape

management;

5.1.2. participatory governance models to involve the public, and especially young people, to

engage in climate action and climate-related decision-making processes, and build community

resilience to climate change;

5.2. develop further synergies with the European Union, the United Nations Educational, Scientific

and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and international heritage institutions on evaluating the impact of

climate change on cultural heritage.

Text adopted by the Standing Committee,

acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 24 May 2024 (see

Doc. 15926,

report

of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, rapporteur: Mr Andries Gryffroy).

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Recommendation 2278 (2024)

Provisional version

Quality education for children with special education needs:

challenges of the pandemic, war and digitalisation

Parliamentary Assembly

The Parliamentary Assembly, referring to its

Resolution 2550 (2024)

“Quality education for children with

special education needs: challenges of the pandemic, war and digitalisation”, considers that valuable lessons

could be learned from emergency situations such as the Covid-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine, to develop

new guidelines on inclusive education, digital transformation and democratic citizenship and support member

States in building more resilient and responsive education systems.

In this context, the Assembly welcomes the decision of the Ministers of Education to set new priorities

and actions to implement the Reykjavik Principles for Democracy by adopting five resolutions and endorsing

the Council of Europe education strategy “Learners First” 2024-2030. Well-being of learners is considered

essential for their holistic, long-term development and academic success through a supportive and inclusive

learning environment. Children with special educational needs must be an integral part of this strategy.

A human rights-based approach to education must be promoted to ensure access, participation,

representation, equity, and fairness in everyday practice across the different settings where children with

special educational needs study and learn, either in regular or special schools, at home, in digital, social, and

physical learning spaces.

Therefore, the Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers develops Council of Europe

guiding principles for a learner-centred and human rights-based approach to education of children with special

educational needs, to make their education accessible, adaptable and acceptable to these children,

considering

inter alia:

4.1. teaching and learning strategies tailored to the specific needs of individuals and groups, to

strengthen motivation, self-esteem, competencies, sense of autonomy and belonging, which would

move away from educational programmes based on normative expectations that discriminate against

children with special education needs

4.2. the interconnection between physical, social, and digital learning spaces, which should share a

common vision of inclusion and learning;

4.3. training and practical guidance for teachers, and co-operation with professionals who work with

children with disabilities and learning difficulties outside school, in order to develop well-adapted

individual educational plans;

4.4. flexible curriculum as a key factor to promote inclusive education, allowing teachers to adapt

content and respond to different needs;

4.5. innovative learning environments to provide opportunities for changes in beliefs, values, policies,

and practices in inclusive education as alternatives to overcome the current restrictions imposed by

rigid curricula, pedagogy, and assessment strategies;

4.6.

teacher collaboration and use of digital media to promote adaptive teaching;

Text adopted by the Standing Committee,

acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 24 May 2024 (see

Doc. 15984,

report

of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, rapporteur: Mr Pavlo Sushko).

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4.7. digitalisation of education in line with the principles of the Council of Europe Digital Citizenship

Education Project, also seeking a co-ordinated improvement of accessibility, adaptability and

acceptability of digital resources and platforms, and increased transparency of underpinning algorithms

and premises on which the learning process is built, to ensure that these platforms include and do not

discriminate against atypical learners or users with functional limitations; children with special education

needs should be provided with special equipment which corresponds to their particular needs (for visual

or hearing impairment, for autism, etc.).

The Assembly also urges the Committee of Ministers to co-operate with relevant international

organisations including UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and the European Agency for Special Needs

and Inclusive Education, to redesign disability assessments with the aim of avoiding discrimination and

labelling, and preventing educational achievements from falling short of children’s potential due to low

expectations, discouragement and demotivation. In this respect, a social and contextual assessment of

disabilities should be used as a future key component of the International Classification of Functioning,

Disability and Health, to identify barriers to participation in different educational settings rather than to

unilaterally identify a child as having a problem. Disability assessments should be mutually recognised across

national borders.

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Resolutions

2548 to 2550

Resolution 2548 (2024)

Provisional version

Children in the world of work: eradicating harmful child labour

Parliamentary Assembly

As the 2025 deadline for achieving target 8.7 on ending modern slavery, trafficking and child labour of

the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the European Union’s corollary

commitment to ending child labour in all its forms approaches, the latest figures show a worsening global

situation, exacerbated by the impact of recent socio-economic crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and armed

conflicts. The elimination of harmful child labour has become an important and urgent priority on the

international agenda, which must be addressed more effectively. The Council of Europe member States must

contribute to the global action in this area.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) defines child labour as “work that deprives children (any

person under 18) of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to their physical and/or

mental development”. The worst forms of child labour include all forms of slavery, sale and trafficking of

children, recruitment and use of child soldiers, use of a child for prostitution, the production of pornography or

unlawful activities such as drug trafficking.

The Parliamentary Assembly deplores the fact that, according to the ILO, worldwide 79 million children

aged 5 to 17 years are working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, manufacturing, hotels, restaurants and

domestic services. Alarmingly, this includes about 3.3 million children trapped into forced labour. In 2020,

around 3.6 million children were employed in Europe, with half of them in hazardous work. While data

collection on the scale of children in work and on their situation needs to be improved at international and

national levels, it is clear that for a large number of children working in unsafe or insalubrious conditions, and

certainly for those in forced labour situations, there are effects on their physical and mental development.

The Assembly notes that children and adolescents are more vulnerable to hazards than adults, in

particular through work: they face a greater risk of exposure to certain diseases and toxic substances, injury,

permanent disability, psychological damage and death, while being less aware of risks than adults and less

capable of making informed judgements due to their lack of knowledge and experience.

The Assembly recalls that child labour has multiple root causes (such as poverty, unemployment of

parents, insufficient educational opportunities, migration, traditional or cultural habits, employers’ demand for

cheap labour and income inequalities) and consequences (notably impacts on mental and physical health,

capacity to complete a normal educational path and develop a skills base conducive to better paid and more

secure jobs and higher social status) which require the sustained and holistic attention of member States.

The Assembly refers to the existing international and European legal instruments that set the regulatory

framework for States to follow in order to protect children’s well-being and eradicate harmful child labour. It

highlights in this context the importance, for the global action, of two universally ratified legal instruments: the

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (except for the United States of America) and the ILO

Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (Convention No. 182).

Text adopted by the Standing Committee,

acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 24 May 2024 (see

Doc. 15982,

report

of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, rapporteur: Ms Eka Sepashvili).

See also

Recommendation 2276 (2024).

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At the European level, several Council of Europe instruments provide a protective legal framework for

children. These include the European Social Charter (ETS Nos. 35 and 163, notably Article 7 requiring States

Parties “to provide that the minimum age of admission to employment shall be 15 years, subject to exceptions

for children employed in prescribed light work without harm to their health, morals or education”), the

European Convention on Human Rights (ETS No. 5, Article 4 banning slavery and servitude), the Convention

on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (CETS No. 201, Lanzarote

Convention), the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS No. 185, Budapest Convention), the Convention on Action

against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS No. 197) and the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the

Child 2022-2027.

The Assembly welcomes the European Union’s commitment to eradicate child labour through the EU

Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy, the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child (2021-2024), the

European Child Guarantee and the new legal initiatives aimed at ensuring corporate sustainability due

diligence through trade. The EU Action Plan supports free and easily accessible compulsory education for

children until they reach the minimum age for work, while extending social welfare programmes to help lift

families out of poverty in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. The EU Strategy on the Rights of the

Child envisages a set of key actions such as dedicating 10% of overall funding under the Neighbourhood,

Development and International Cooperation Instrument outside the European Union to education, technical

assistance to strengthen labour inspections systems for monitoring and enforcement of child labour laws, and

working towards making global supply chains of EU companies free of child labour.

The Assembly also welcomes a series of national laws in European countries that require enterprises to

conduct due diligence to ensure compliance with international conventions regarding human rights and child

labour in global supply chains. It believes that further improvements in legislation may be needed to further

secure conditions of decent work, support life-long learning and cover the new forms of work resulting from

technological progress and changes in the labour market, in order to ensure an appropriate level of child

protection in the future.

10. The Assembly is concerned with the gaps between law and practice, as well as the lack of attention to

addressing the root causes of child labour. It strongly supports the Durban Call to Action which was adopted

on 20 May 2022 at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour and which sets out a

comprehensive framework with six commitment areas aimed at accelerating action to eradicate child labour.

This framework lays out a multi-stakeholder approach to promote decent work for adults and young persons

above the minimum age of work, policy reforms to prevent and eliminate the worst forms of child labour and

human trafficking, efforts to end child labour in agriculture, effective protection of children's right to education,

universal access to social protection, and stronger international co-operation to enforce laws against child

labour and forced labour.

11. The Assembly underscores the pivotal role of public authorities in ensuring effective collective action on

ending child labour in all its forms by 2025 and calls on the Council of Europe member and observer States,

and States whose parliaments enjoy observer or partner for democracy status with the Assembly to:

11.1. put in place national action plans for the elimination of child labour in general and harmful child

labour in particular;

11.2. implement measures proposed in the Durban Call to Action on the Elimination of Child Labour

adopted in May 2022 by involving all relevant national stakeholders (employers, trade unions,

governmental agencies, parliaments, local authorities, community groups, schools, media, NGOs, faith-

based organisations) and engaging in international co-operation;

11.3. clarify and strengthen the responsibilities and obligations of enterprises for ensuring respect for

human rights and effectively eliminating child labour in global supply chains and public procurement, in

accordance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights;

11.4. strengthen the implementation of national laws, regulations and policies to eliminate child labour,

in particular forced labour, and to reduce the informal sector of economy by enhancing the capacity of

law enforcement bodies, labour inspectorates and child protection services to detect and eradicate

harmful practices;

11.5. make full use of the Council of Europe legal instruments, the European Union initiatives and the

ILO conventions with a view to eliminating forced labour and human trafficking;

11.6. address the root causes of child labour by ensuring adequate social protection of children and

their families or caregivers;

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11.7. enhance aid for development aimed at capacity building in developing countries to eliminate

child labour and improve access of the population to social services and benefits;

11.8. improve data collection and conduct research on emerging patterns of child labour for better

informed policies and decisions.

12. The Assembly calls on national parliaments to monitor the implementation of national measures for

eradicating child labour, in particular the worst forms of child labour, and to keep governments to account on

their commitment to achieve by 2025 target 8.7 on modern slavery, trafficking and child labour of the United

Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Resolution 2549 (2024)

Provisional version

Cultural heritage and climate change

Parliamentary Assembly

In 2021, the Parliamentary Assembly called for an ambitious new legal framework, both at national and

European levels, to anchor “the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment” to the European

system of human rights. At the Reykjavík Summit in May 2023, a forward-looking agenda was set out for the

Council of Europe, whereby the Heads of State and Government have committed to strengthening the work

on the human rights aspects of the environment. In line with this newly set political agenda, the Council of

Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (CETS No. 199, “Faro

Convention”) asserts cultural heritage and culture in general at the centre of a new vision for sustainable

development.

The Assembly is concerned that all forms of cultural heritage – tangible and intangible – are now

directly and indirectly threatened by the consequences of climate change. Increased temperatures, extended

heatwaves, violent storms, floods, drought, landslides and wildfires affect monuments, archaeological sites,

historic cities, stately homes and vernacular buildings, cultural landscapes and historic gardens, museum

collections, archives, and libraries.

Similarly, climate change is seriously threatening the values, lives and practices of heritage

communities whose livelihoods are intricately linked to nature, such as Sami communities in northern parts of

Europe. Their traditions and way of life are now at risk, not only through climate change but also through

governmental and economic development actions in the fields of forestry, mining, and energy supply, some of

which are themselves designed to combat the effects of climate change and to diversify and expand energy

sources within Europe. The Assembly therefore considers that a broader trans-national European land-use

plan for Sami rights is needed to deal with this European cross-border problem. This could be a two-way

process in view of the Sami’s thorough traditional knowledge of landscape and climate that would be valuable

for scientific research, preservation of the natural world and climate adaptation in times of crisis.

Only a few member States of the Council of Europe include cultural heritage in climate change policies

and there is generally little coordination between ministries that are overseeing different issues related to

climate change. The challenges posed by climate change to cultural heritage require adequate political

responses at national, regional, local, as well as European levels, a radical change of mindset and institutional

behaviour, and a review of current methods and processes.

Accordingly, the Assembly recommends that the Council of Europe member States:

5.1. sign and ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage

for Society, the Council of Europe Landscape Convention (ETS No. 176) and the United Nations

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention for the Safeguarding of the

Intangible Cultural Heritage, and accede to the European and Mediterranean Major Hazards

Agreement (EUR-OPA), if they have not done so yet;

5.2. where applicable, sign and ratify the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (C169) of the

International Labour Organization (ILO);

Text adopted by the Standing Committee,

acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 24 May 2024 (see

Doc. 15926,

report

of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media, rapporteur: Mr Andries Gryffroy).