February

• February 15-16: Participation of PGA in the launch of the 20th Anniversary of the Rome Statute of the ICC, organised by the CICC, The Hague, The Netherlands

March

• March 1: First Biannual Meeting of the PGA UN Committee, Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the UN, New York

• March 12: Mission of PGA President to meet with Ukrainian Speaker of Parliament and CAP-ICC Organizing Committee, Parliament of Ukraine, Kyiv

• March 15: PGA intervention in the Special Working Session on Strengthening Cooperation with the International Criminal Court, Committee of Juridical and Political Affairs, Organisation of American States (OAS), Washington DC

• March 19-23: PGA participation at PoA - Preparatory Committee for the Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects, UN Headquarters, New York

• March 21-23: Participation of PGA in Seminar on the promotion of the Universality of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), organized by the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

April

• April 3: Parliamentary Consultation on Addressing Inequalities of the Criminal Justice System, New Delhi, India

• April 9-10: PGA participation to the Regional Congress against the death penalty, organised by ECPM, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

• April 18: PGA participates in Commonwealth Forum of National Human Rights Institutions: Panel discussion on LGBTI inclusion with parliamentarians, NHRIs and business leaders, London, United Kingdom

• April 26-27: PGA Regional Pacific-Island States Parliamentary Workshop on Mobilizing Parliamentarians to Advocate for Improved Compliance with the UN Program of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) and promoting more effective participation by women MPs in Defence, Security, Interior Committees, Apia, Samoa

May

• May 7: Parliamentary Delegation and Consultations on the Death Penalty, in partnership with ECPM, Jakarta, Indonesia

• May 17-18: Seminar for Parliamentarians and National Human Rights Institutions on Equality and Non-Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) in Latin America and the Caribbean, Buenos Aires, Argentina

• May 30: Meeting of PGA’s National Group in Canada hosted by Mr. Randy Boissonnault, Member of Parliament & Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 Issues, Ottawa, Canada

• May 31: Launch of the Handbook on Parliamentary Action for the Prevention of Mass Atrocities and Violent Extremism, in partnership with All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity [and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR)], Parliament of Canada, Ottawa

June

• June 1-2: Regional Parliamentary Seminar: Promoting the abolition of the death penalty in Africa: The Role of Parliamentarians, in partnership with La Culture pour la Paix et la Justice (CPJ ASBL) & Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

• June 8: Breakfast Meeting with UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights and Member States of the LGBT Core Group of the UN, hosted by the Permanent Mission of The Netherlands to the United Nations

• June 8: Strategy Meeting on the Oceans Campaign: ratification of the Cape Town Agreement / Ending Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations

• June 8: Second Biannual UN Committee Meeting, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, New York

• June 18: PGA Working Lunch on the Pacific Island States’ contribution to the universality of the Rome Statute of the ICC in the margins of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (35^th session, opening day), European Parliament, Brussels

• June 18-29: PGA participation at PoA - Third United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects, UN Headquarters, New York

• June 25-27, 2018: Ms. Kasthuri Patto, MP Malaysia and PGA member, participates in Girls Not Brides' Global Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

July

• July 17: 20th Anniversary of the Rome Statute of the ICC - (ICC Premises, The Hague – PGA co-sponsorship of event in UN Premises, New York)

• July 18: Forward-looking conference on the 20th Anniversary of the Statute of the International Criminal Court - organized by the PGA European Parliament and Italy Groups in the same venue where the Statute was opened for signature, Campidoglio, City Hall of Rome, Italy

• July 24-26: Participation at the Equality & Justice Alliance Experts Roundtable on Reform of Discriminatory Laws in the Commonwealth, London, United Kingdom

September

• September 6: 20th Anniversary of the Rome Statute: challenges in the protection of human rights, co-organized by the PGA National group in Uruguay, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay and the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Montevideo

• September 17-18: PGA Regional Africa Anglophone/Francophone Parliamentary Workshop to Promote Universality and Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention and Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

• September 18-19: PGA Regional Anglophone Workshop on Mobilizing Parliamentarians to Advocate for Improved Compliance with the UN Program of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons and promoting more effective participation by women MPs in Defence,  Security and Interior Committees, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

October

• October 4-5: Parliamentary Seminar on Strengthening the Legal Framework of the Fight against Impunity in Central-African Republic, Bangui, Central African Republic

• October 10: Participation by PGA in World Day against the Death Penalty: screening and debate on the topic of capital punishment in Pakistan, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium

• October 17-18: Participation by PGA in G7 Global Partnership Biological Security Working Group (BSWG) Meetings -  Québec City,  Canada

• October 18-19: Sub-regional Working Group on the Implementation of the Rome Statute, Parliament of Honduras, Tegucigalpa

• October 21-22: PGA Lusophone Parliamentary Workshop on Mobilizing Parliamentarians to Advocate for Improved Compliance with the UN Program of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons and promoting more effective participation by women MPs in Defence/Security/Interior Committees, Bissau, Guinea Bissau

• October 23-24: PGA Lusophone Parliamentary Workshop to Promote Universality and Implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention as well as Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

• October 24-25: High-Level Regional Cooperation Seminar: Opportunities for cooperation and exchange of experiences at 20 years of the Rome Statute, Tbilisi, Georgia

• October 30-31: Regional Parliamentary Seminar: Promoting the abolition of the death penalty in Asia: The Role of Parliamentarians, in partnership with ADPAN and Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• October 30-31: Participation at PANCAP’s Regional Meeting for Advancing Recommendations for Addressing Gaps in the Human Rights Response under the Justice For All Program, Kingston, Jamaica

November

• November 16-17: 40^th PGA Annual Forum: 10^th Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians on the International Criminal Court and the Rule of Law (CAP-ICC), in partnership with the Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), Kyiv, Ukraine

• November 19: Parliamentary Roundtable on Best Practices and Lessons Learned to Advance Equality and Non-Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

• November 26: PGA Parliamentary Workshop on Engaging Parliamentarians and Policy Makers in Jordan and Somalia on Biological Non-proliferation and Promoting Bio-risk Management Best Practices, Amman, Jordan

December

• December 4-7: PGA Delegation to Annual Meeting of States Parties of BWC - Geneva, Switzerland 

• December 5-12: PGA participation and side-events to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC, The Hague

PGA GOVERNANCE AND ADVISORY MEETINGS

• June 9: Executive Committee Meeting, PGA Headquarters, New York

• November 18: PGA’s International Council and Executive Committee Meetings, Kyiv, Ukraine