Mobilizing Legislators as Champions for
Human Rights, Democracy, and a Sustainable World
Mobilizing Legislators as Champions for
Human Rights, Democracy, and a Sustainable World
Ratified EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is fresh impulse towards Rome Statute ratification by Ukraine
In order to help in the fight against the deadly Ebola diseases in the Country, the Minority Leader of Parliament, Hon. Dr. Bernadette Lahai of Constituency 13, Kenema District, has engaged communities in her Constituency in a massive Ebola education.
PGA organized this week a visit to The Hague and the International Criminal Court by a Delegation of Members of the Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, the Parliament of Ukraine.
The people of Iraq have recently suffered a tragic history. Enough is enough: peace and justice must now go “hand-in-hand” and there has to be an end to impunity for the most serious crimes affecting the civilian populations of Iraq.
New Zealand will contribute a five person team to the Multinational Observer Group for the Fiji election, including PGA President Ross Robertson.
The intense activities and discussions brought together over 25 Parliamentarians from 12 different Latin American States.
PGA and its global membership of over 1,000 Members in 139 countries worldwide continues to monitor with growing alarm and deep concern the rapidly deteriorating situation following the most recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa.
PGA Members from 139 countries worldwide, under the leadership of PGA President Ross Robertson (Assistant Speaker of the Parliament of New Zealand), urge the international community to increase its humanitarian assistance in Iraq.
PGA congratulates its PGA National Groups in The Dominican Republic and Sierra Leone for their consistent, unyielding and steadfast efforts –over many years - which contributed in a substantive way to the ratification of the ATT by their Governments.
The Campaign seeks to accelerate regional and international efforts to eliminate harmful traditional practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting by sensitizing parliamentarians on the rights of girls.
PGA together with Réseau Parlementaire pour les droits humains (Repadhoc) organized a workshop where 60 MPs from DRC discussed the challenges of putting an end to impunity for those allegedly responsible for the commission of international crimes in th
Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) welcomes the ceasefire between both sides of the conflict in the Gaza Strip and in Israel and calls for a lasting cessation of violence.
Judge Sang Hyun Song, President of the ICC, has travelled to Montevideo, Uruguay in order to sign an Exchange of Letters between the ICC andPARLASUR for the establishment of a framework agreement for cooperation between the ICC and PARLASUR
The Constitutional Court of Uganda has declared the passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into Act as null and void. The panel of five judges unanimously nullified the Anti-Homosexuality Act on grounds that it was passed without the required quorum.
PGA notes with serious concern allegations made that the cease fire has already been broken and that violence has restarted in various areas of the territory.
Durante mis doce años de actividad congresual he constatado dolorosamente que la infra representación de las mujeres nos coloca a las legisladoras en el doble reto de enfrentar los problemas de género relativos a salud reproductiva, violencia, discriminac
MPs from the DRC, Uganda and the UK met at the Parliament of Uganda to discuss how to best cooperate in fighting impunity for international crimes under the complementarity principle of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
PGA welcomes the European Parliament’s adoption of the Resolution on the crime of aggression (Kampala Amendments).
