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 Member Honorable Stephen Tashobya, Chair of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Uganda and Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) hosted a “Seminar on international criminal justice, the challenges for domestic prosecu
On 17 September 2013, Khalil Al Marzooq, a resigned Member of Parliament from Bahrain, was arrested in Manama on the basis of politically motivated charges of inciting violence and suspicion of links with a terrorist organization.
PGA Members worldwide have expressed profound shock at the assassination of Mohamed Brahmi, a leading, opposition Member of Parliament in Tunisia on 25th July, 2013.
PGA strongly condemns the ongoing repressive and intimidatory actions by Chadian authorities against Parliamentarians, human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents.
PGA Secretary-General visited Islamabad and addressed the meeting of the PGA National Group, June 24, 2013.
On July 15, 2013, PGA organized a strategic meeting of its Executive Committee with key Ambassadors to the UN, including Members of the PGA UN Committee, and civil society leaders on the UN Security Council and Accountability. The meeting was kindly hoste
Member of Parliament Ms. Petra Bayr and Colleagues to the Federal Minister for European and International Affairs concerning the introduction of the Crime of Aggression, the fifth criminal offense before the International Criminal Court.
Twenty years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Program of Action was adopted by global consensus in Cairo, the United Nations has launched a series of regional conferences to assess the progress made so far and the
In the context of the ongoing process to reform the judicial system of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and to fight against impunity for the most serious crimes of international concern, PGA organised a “Seminar for Legislators on measures to impleme
Uruguay’s Senate Ratifies Kampala Amendments to Rome Statute of ICC Press Releases News Center
We, Members of Parliament from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Members of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), a network of over 1,000 Members of Parliament from over 130 countries worldwide, view with strong approval the G8 decision t
Hosted by the Tanzanian Parliament, PGA organized from 29-30 May 2013 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania at the Parliament Office (Mkwawa Hall) a Regional Parliamentary Workshop on “The Arms Trade Treaty - The Role of Parliamentarians.”
The Government of Germany today deposited at the United Nations in New York its Instrument of Ratification of the Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted in Kampala in 2010, thereby accepting to bind its nationals and t
For new generations of lawyers practising in the field of international justice, and students graduating in international legal studies, Chris’s and Amnesty International’s work on international law should remain a point of legal, academic and advocacy re
Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) expresses profound concern and condemnation at the arrest of one of its Member-Parliamentarians and the arrest warrant issued against another member in Chad in the context of the wave of arrests and intimidation ag
A ceremony was held at the BMICH on May 20th, 2013 in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo for the honour of Irrigation and Water Resource Management Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva who completes 30 years in politics this year.
Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney, Henry Waxman and 35 other House Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to not appeal the Federal Court’s decision in Tummino v. Hamburg.
Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay unanimously approves the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute Press Releases News Center
