Parliamentarians for Global Action


		This Year's Forum: 30th Forum Past Forum: 29th Forum

PGA’s Annual Parliamentary Forum

In 1980, PGA initiated an Annual Parliamentary Forum during the United Nations General Assembly. The primary goal was to develop the role of parliamentarians in international politics by organizing a UN Parliamentary Forum at each General Assembly. The first Forum was held in September 1981 at the UN to discuss The Politics of Human Survival. As a result of PGA’s involvement of MPs, governments now routinely include parliamentarians on national delegations to the General Assembly.

At these fora, PGA members not only have the opportunity to discuss pressing issues with other members from around the world, but also with parliamentarians who are not members, such as high-level government and intergovernmental officials and experts, whom they might not have ever met otherwise.

Since 2000, PGA's Annual Fora have been held internationally. The First international venue was in Rome, Italy, for the 22nd Annual Forum titled Debt-for-Development: Debt Relief Targeted to Poverty Eradication. Since then PGA's Annual Forum has been held in Sweden, Canada, the United States Congress, New Zealand, Ireland, Japan and Nigeria.

This year, PGA will organize the 30th Annual Forum in the Dominican Republic on Strengthening Democratic Institutions, Accountability and the Rule of Law and the Fifth Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Rule of Law. The Forum will take place on October 30-31, 2008. For more information, please click here.

The Topics of Some Past Annual Fora:

2007: Poverty and Unemployment: The Root Causes of Migration (Abuja, Nigeria)

2006: Fourth Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the ICC and the Rule of Law (Tokyo, Japan) Photos

2005: Migration, Immigration and Integration (Dublin, Ireland) Photos

2004: Third Session of the Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the International Criminal Court

(ICC) and the Rule of Law (Wellington, New Zealand) Photos

2003: PGA’s 25th Anniversary Tribute, United States Congress Photos

2002: Consultative Parliamentary Assembly for the International Criminal Court (Ottawa, Canada)

2001: E-commerce and Internet ; Special Parliamentary Session on Counter-Terrorism (Stockholm, Sweden)

2000: Debt-for-Development : Debt Relief Targeted to Poverty Eradication

1999: Eradicating Global Poverty

1998: In Defense of Human Dignity: Striking the Balance of Peace & Justice

1997: Crafting Lasting Peace

1996: Special Parliamentary Session on Africa

1995: Reviving the Global Economy

1994: Some More Equal than Others?: Disarmament and Development in the post Cold-War Perspective

1993: UN Peacekeeping

1992: Global Dialogue on the New World Order

1991: Defining the New Sovereignty

1990: Nuclear Test Ban and Non-Proliferation