PGA’s vision is to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe, sustainable and democratic world.
PGA’s vision is to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe, sustainable and democratic world.
The global membership of PGA has recently embraced and supported the political and constitutional developments that led Guinea Bissau to become a multi-party parliamentary democracy under the Rule of Law.
On 16 February 2017, PGA held its first UN Advisory Committee Meeting of 2017, hosted by the Chair of the PGA UN Committee Ambassador Christian Wenaweser at the Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the UN.
PGA Board member Mr. Mark Pritchard, MP briefed the UK Foreign Secretary, Mr. Boris Johnson on the work of PGA.
PGA warmly congratulates Mr. Adama Barrow, the newly elected President of the Gambia, on his statement that his administration was working on rejoining the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Commonwealth.
Members of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) welcome the successful efforts deployed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its Member States, which resulted in a peaceful transfer of power in the Gambia last week.
Dip. Ronny Monge informs PGA Secretariat that the draft legislation n° 19.665 on cooperation and relation with the ICC has been approved by the Members of his Commission.
On 16 November 2016, the Constitutional Committee chaired by PGA member Dip. Ramos Soto, approved the bill that creates national mechanisms to efficiently cooperate with the ICC tabled by PGA member Dip. Jorge Cálix.
On 8 November 2016, Sen. Julio César Valentín, Chair of the PGA National Group in Dominican Republic, tabled a bill that created the necessary national mechanisms to cooperate efficiently with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
On 21 September 2016, Dip. Marisol Peñafiel, Chair of the PGA National Group of Ecuador, tabled a bill to amend the Criminal Code and include national mechanisms to enhance the cooperation with the ICC.
On 6 December 2016, Dip. Ronny Monge, PGA Board Member, tabled bill n°4573 which amends the Criminal Code of Costa Rica in order to implement the crimes included in the Rome Statute as well as the Kampala Amendments.
European Parliament Human Rights Sub-Committee (DROI), 25 January 2017
The thoughts of PGA Members worldwide and the PGA Secretariat are with the victims of the attacks, their relatives, and all MPs and parliamentary staff in Afghanistan.
At the margins of the International Criminal Court’s High-Level Seminar for Fostering Cooperation with the Court in the Caribbean Community region, Dr. David Donat Cattin met with the President of the Republic of T&T Mr. Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona
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PGA members attended a workshop on the abollition of the death penalty, held on 19 and 20 December 2016 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
The Roundtable was held on 19 December 2016 and hosted by Hon. Hryhoriy Nemyria, MP, Chair of the Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations of the Parliament of Ukraine
PGA Conference on the justice system created by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
On 15 December 2016, PGA organized a Conference on the justice system created by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)