Mobilizing Legislators as Champions for
Human Rights, Democracy, and a Sustainable World
Mobilizing Legislators as Champions for
Human Rights, Democracy, and a Sustainable World
PGA UN Committee Member Mr. Adama Dieng, Spec. Adv. on Genocide, on Bahrain
Iceland, which deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute on 25 May 2000, has now become the 29th State of the world that ratified the Kampala Amendments on the crime of aggression.
Bolivian Senator María Lourdes Landivar shares her thoughts on the proclamation of the Gender Identity Law in her country on May 21, 2016.
PGA strongly condemns the shocking attack carried out by a terrorist in a gay nightclub of Orlando, Florida, yesterday, which has caused enormous loss of life and appears to have been specifically directed against the LGBT community.
On 13 June 2016, PGA held its second UN Committee Meeting of 2016, hosted by H.E. Ambassador Gillian Bird, Perm. Rep. of Australia to the UN at the Permanent Mission of Australia to the UN.
On 2 June 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) held a ceremony to welcome El Salvador as the 124th State Party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
PGA commends the work of Hon. Wilby Lucas, MP and the National Assembly of the Republic of Seychelles, for passing an amendment to section 151 of the Penal Code decriminalizing unnatural offenses.
On 26 May 2016, PGA and the Committee for Inter-parliamentary Cooperation of the House of Representatives of Indonesia co-organized a Seminar on the ICC & Gender Justice.
On 24 May 2016, Dip. Tucapel Jimenez visited the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet with the Under-Secretary of Foreign Relations, Mr. Edgar Riveros.
Summary of PGA’s Meeting with the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF)
On 17-18 May 2016, upon invitation of International Law and Human Rights Co- Convenor, Sen. Alain Destexhe, the ICC President Judge Silvia Fernandez and PGA Secretary General participated in the experts’ hearing on Cooperation with the ICC
PGA members from Colombia, namely Rep. Alirio Uribe Muñoz, Rep. Ángela María Robledo and Rep. Iván Cepeda Castro addressed a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs inquiring on the implementation status of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
PGA member and Chair of Brazilian National Group, Dep. Jean Wyllys, acknowledged the Presidential Decree of May 11th, 2016 that, inter alia, quadruples penalties for development of biological weapons
Media sources are reporting that today, 12 May 2016, Uganda is receiving in Kampala a fugitive of international justice, Mr. Omar Al-Bashir, the President of Sudan.
On 3 May 2016, the President of PGA’s National Group in Chile, Dip. Tucapel Jimenez, presented a Draft Parliamentary Resolution to the Chamber of Deputies requesting the President of Chile to deposit Chile’s instruments for the Kampala amendments.
PGA congratulates PGA Executive Committee Member and Deputy Convenor of PGA International Peace and Security Program, Dip. Víctor Bisonó for his Draft Bill of Legislation which seeks to amend Law No. 36 of 1965 of the Dominican Republic on Firearms.
While much attention is paid to the way that the influx of refugees and migrants is being handled by European leaders, surprisingly little attention is paid to the underlying question of why these people are fleeing their homes in the first place.
On 18-22 April 2016, PGA facilitated the visit of a high-level Parliamentary Delegation from Uganda to The Hague.
