The Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Cese) approved changes to its internal organization on Wednesday June 10 to remain “in touch with society’s expectations” by notably creating a permanent delegation on children’s rights.
A few weeks after the election as president of Claire Thoury, the first woman at the head of this consultative assembly whose role has been questioned and even contested in recent months, Cese announced that it had adopted “new internal regulations”.
The modifications “aim to adapt its organization and its working methods to the transformations undertaken since the start of the new mandate and to strengthen its role as the third constitutional assembly, in tune with the expectations of society”, according to its press release.
Three permanent commissions
The Cese is notably retouching the scope of its permanent commissions and creating “a third permanent delegation, devoted to children’s rights” which will be able to take up “subjects relating to childhood, child protection, children’s rights and more broadly the place of children in society”. The assembly has so far included a delegation for women’s rights and equality and another for overseas.
“Since 2021, we have profoundly evolved the Cese, in its missions as in its methods,” underlines the new president of the Cese in the press release, welcoming an “additional step” with the modalities adopted on Wednesday.
The 175 Cese advisors represent unions, 52 of them sitting on behalf of employers’ organizations, farmers, craftsmen, liberal professions and mutual societies. Forty-five others represent associations or organizations working for social and territorial cohesion and 26 environmental protection organizations.
