Jan-Mar |
Consultations with NGOs, experts, and partners on the realization of a project proposal for an “EU Observatory on the Fight against Impunity in the World” (to be submitted to the European Commission) (virtual, as well as in The Hague, New York and, as appropriate, Brussels) |
Virtual/In-Person |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
12 January |
BUILD TOMORROW. Increasing legitimacy of International Law: The Role of Parliaments (co-organized with the International Law Association French-Branch) |
Virtual |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
25 January |
Promoting Female Parliamentary Engagement in Support of the Silencing The Guns in Africa Initiative |
Virtual |
SALW/ATT Campaign |
30 January |
Roundtable Discussion on Protecting Human Rights Defenders of Environmental Matters: The Escazú Agreement |
Virt ual,Costa Rica |
Climate Action Campaign |
Feb 3-9 |
IMPAC5: 5th International Marine Protected Areas Conference |
Vancouver, Canada |
Protection of the Oceans |
09 February |
Biannual Strategic Meeting of PGA UN Advisory Committee, Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the UN |
New York, United States |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
27 February |
Talanoa Dialogue on Human Rights and Inclusion for Pacific Parliamentarians and LGBTI+ activists at the sidelines of Sydney WorldPride’s Human Rights Conference |
Sydney, Australia |
SOGI Campaign |
28 February |
Regional Virtual African Follow-up Activity to Promote Female Parliamentary Engagement in Support of the Silencing The Guns in Africa Initiative |
Virtual |
SALW/ATT Campaign |
2-3 Mar |
Our Oceans Conference in Panama |
Panama |
Protection of the Oceans |
08 March |
Participation in the Commemoration of International Women’s Day hosted by the Inter-American Human Rights Court on the topic “Strategies to engage parliamentarians in ending child, early and forced marriage.” |
Virtual |
CEFM Campaign |
7-17 Mar |
67th Session Commission on the Status of Women (#GenderClimateChallenge) |
TBD |
Climate Action Campaign |
22-24 Mar |
UN Water Conference |
New York, United States |
Protection of the Oceans |
3-4 April |
African Regional Parliamentary Workshop targeting 17 African States that are Non-States Parties to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and its Protocols. |
Lilongwe, Malawi |
Global Cybercrime Initiative |
Apr 4-6 |
Ocean Visions Biennial Summit |
Atlanta, United States |
Protection of the Oceans |
10-14 Apr |
PGA participation in the resumed session of the UNGA 6th Committee on the Crimes against Humanity Convention |
New York, United States |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
19 April |
Modernizing the International Criminal Court: Hybrid Chambers- event in follow up on the proposals for the extension of the ICC jurisdiction (co-organized with the Harvard Journal of International Law) (virtual) |
Virtual |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
17-24 Apr |
5th International Symposium on Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans |
Bergen, Norway |
Protection of the Oceans |
19 April |
Empowering parliamentarians on climate action, side event to the extraordinary Conference of State Parties (COP) for the Escazú Agreement, in collaboration with the Senate of Argentina |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Climate Action Campaign |
20 April |
Mozambique National Group Informative Session: Protecting the livelihoods of local fishing communities in Mozambique |
Virtual/In-Person |
Protection of the Oceans |
22 April |
Earth Day |
Virtual |
Climate Action Campaign |
02 May |
3rd Session in Series of Roundtable Discussions on Building Resilience in Small-Scale Fishing Communities in South Africa |
Virtual, South Africa |
Protection of the Oceans |
3-5 May |
Field mission to Yerevan and participation at the Second Annual Conference: Human Rights and Accountability - A Path Forward for Nagorno-Karabakh (organized by the Center for Truth and Justice) |
Yerevan, Armenia |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
10 May |
4th Session in Series of Roundtable Discussions on Building Resilience in Small-Scale Fishing Communities in South Africa |
Virtual, South Africa |
Protection of the Oceans |
15-19 May |
PGA participation in the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, and other International Crimes |
Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
17 May |
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia |
Virtual |
SOGI Campaign |
22 May |
International Day for Biological Diversity |
Virtual |
Climate Action Campaign |
25 May |
Workshop on Judicial Elections & Vetting (co-organized with the Coalition for the International Criminal Court) |
Virtual |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
28 -30 May |
PGA Executive Committee Meeting |
New York, United States |
Governance |
08 June |
UN World Oceans Day |
Virtual |
Protection of the Oceans |
18 June |
PGA Commemorates the International Day for Countering Hate Speech |
Virtual |
Democratic Renewal and Human Rights |
26 or 27 Jun |
Meeting with PGA European Parliament Group to discuss strategies on the peer-to-peer engagement with Parliamentarians from targeted countries in the margins of the 43rd ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, potentially inviting MPs from Ukraine and other countries. |
Brussels, Belgium |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
26-28 Jun |
Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific Islands (ACP) Consultation on Rome Statute ratification and implementation at the margins of the 43rd ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (in cooperation with the ICC and the EU/EEAS) |
Brussels, Belgium |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
28/29 Jun |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Yaoundé, Cameroon |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |
30 June |
PGA commemorates the International Day of Parliamentarism |
Virtual/In-Person (TBC) |
Democratic Renewal and Human Rights |
Jun |
Forth conference of PGA and partners to focus on strategies for atrocity prevention in Afghanistan |
Virtual |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
July |
Follow up mission on equality and inclusion in the Caribbean |
TBD |
SOGI Campaign |
July/August |
Follow up meeting with Honduran legislators on actions to advance rights of LGBTI+ persons |
TBD |
SOGI Campaign |
1-3 July |
59th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
Nairobi, Kenya |
Climate Action Campaign |
5-6 July |
Caribbean Regional Parliamentary Workshop targeting 10 States in the Caribbean region that are Non-States Parties to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and its Protocols. |
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. |
Global Cybercrime Initiative |
07 July |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |
10-11 July |
PGA cooperation/support for the official visit of the ICC Prosecutor to the Parliament (and Government) of Pakistan, including assistance for an official hearing in the Foreign Relations Committee |
Islamabad, Pakistan |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
10-20 July |
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development |
New York, United States |
Protection of the Oceans |
17 July |
Event to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Rome Statute of the ICC: The impact of the fight against impunity on rights-based international cooperation for development and on post-conflict state-building (during the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) or another suitable venue) |
New York, United States |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
20th July |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Victoria, Seychelles |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |
24-28 July |
28th Session of the International Seabed Authority Assembly |
New York, United States |
Protection of the Oceans |
31st July |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Banjul, The Gambia |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |
Mid 2023 |
PGA participation in the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Crimes against Humanity Convention (to be eventually set up by the UNGA through a resolution to be adopted by December 2022) |
New York, United States |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
Second Half |
PGA Participation at the Technical Workshop on the Framework of the Venezuelan Draft Law Implementing the Rome Statute Crimes (organized by the ICC) |
Caracas, Venezuela |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
09 August |
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples |
Virtual |
Democratic Renewal and Human Rights |
Sep-Oct |
Visit of Members of Parliament from Non-Party States to the ICC |
The Hague, Netherlands |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
Sep-Oct |
Parliamentary Delegation/Field Mission to Jamaica on the Rule of Law (including Ratification and Implementation of the Rome Statute) or Subregional Parliamentary Seminar on the Ratification and Implementation of the Rome Statute: A Tool to Strengthen the Rule of Law and Democratic Institutions in Latin America (Venue TBC) |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
Sep-Oct |
Third African Parliamentary Forum on Gender and Sexual Minorities, in collaboration with UNDP’s Inclusive Governance Initiative |
TBD |
SOGI Campaign |
21-23 Sept |
SDG Summit 2023 and Climate Ambition Summit, UN Headquarters |
New York, United States |
Climate Action Campaign |
October |
Sub-Regional Working Group on the Universality of the Rome Statute and Fight Against Impunity in the Middle East and North Africa, Parliament of Morocco, or Jordan |
TBD |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
October |
PGA participation in relevant session(s) of the Pan-African Parliament to follow up on the ACP-EU JPA event |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
October |
PGA commemorates the World Day Against the Death Penalty |
Virtual/In-Person (TBC) |
Abolition of the Death Penalty |
11 October |
International Day of the Girl |
Virtual |
CEFM Campaign |
16 October |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Harare, Zimbabwe |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |
November |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Freetown, Sierra Leone |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |
November |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Monrovia, Liberia |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |
November |
Side consultations during PGA’s 44th Annual Forum |
TBC |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
November |
Seminar on the Escazú Agreement with Caribbean parliamentarians |
Kingston, Jamaica |
Climate Action Campaign |
November |
ECLAC/CEPAL Second Annual Forum of Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (details to be confirmed) |
TBD |
Climate Action Campaign |
Nov-Dec |
3rd Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the Oceans (CAP-Oceans) (details to be confirmed) |
TBC |
Protection of the Oceans |
30 Nov - 12 Dec |
UN Climate Change Conference: 28th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) |
United Arab Emirates |
Climate Action Campaign |
4-14 Dec |
Participation in the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court and organization of PGA Side-Events |
New York, United States |
Rome Statute of the ICC |
December |
National Parliamentary Session to Promote Universality and Implementation of CPPNM, A/CPPNM and ICSANT |
Paramaribo, Suriname |
Nuclear and Radiological Security |