PGA Activity Calendar 2019

February

February 14: First Biannual Meeting of the PGA UN Advisory Committee, Permanent Mission of Lichtenstein to the United Nations, New York
February 18-20: PGA Member participation in the Equality & Justice Forum for Commonwealth Parliamentarians 2019, Cape Town, South Africa
Feb 27-March 1: Participation to the World Congress against the Death Penalty, including a Side-Event on “Parliamentarians as Abolitionist Champions” organised by PGA, Brussels, Belgium

March 18-22: PGA delegation to participate in ILGA World Conference, Wellington, New Zealand
March 20: Presentation about PGA and its SOGI Campaign to New Zealand MPs, followed by the screening of a documentary on LGBTI rights in the Pacific, Parliament of New Zealand, Wellington
March 25-26: PGA delegation to Cape Verde to plan 2019 Annual Forum, Praia, Cape Verde

April 29-30: Regional Central America & Caribbean Workshop on Promoting Universality and National Implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and Implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

May 6-7: Sub-regional Latin America Working Group and Parliamentary Seminar: International Justice, a fundamental tool to strengthen the Rule of Law, the protection of human rights and democratic governance, Parliament of Uruguay, Montevideo
May 16-17: Regional Africa Workshop on Promoting the Role of Women Parliamentarians in Africa in Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Assembly of The Gambia, Banjul
May 31: Pacific Islands Roundtables on the Ratification and Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Port Vila, Vanuatu

June 18-19: Participation by PGA in Regional Latin America Meeting on possible future negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT), organized by UNLIREC, with support from the European Union - Lima, Peru

July 3-4: Regional Working Group on the Fight against Impunity in Africa: Developing Accountability Mechanisms and the Effective Implementation of the Rome Statute of the ICC, Parliament of The Gambia, Banjul
July 15: PGA Roundtable discussion on the importance of the CTA, the PSMA and the C188 in the framework of the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in collaboration with Pew Charitable Trusts to Strategize PGA's Oceans Campaign, New York City, USA
July 15 - Stakeholders meeting on PGA’s Global Parliamentary Campaign to Promote Ratification and Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention and Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) - PGA Headquarters, New York
July 17 - Side event to the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2019: The crucial role of international criminal justice in achieving SDG16, co-organized by The Permanant Mission of Leichtenstein to the United Nations ans PGA, United Nations, New York
July 24-26: Global Convening on the Decriminalization of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, organized by the Open Society Foundations in partnership with the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality, the Southern African Litigation Centre, the Human Dignity Trust, and Parliamentarians for Global Action, Bridgetown, Barbados

September/October 2019: Regional South Asia Workshop on Engaging Women Parliamentarians in Addressing the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons, National Parliament, Colombo, Sri Lanka

October 14-16: Pacific Youth and Parliamentarians Regional Dialogue, Apia, Samoa
October 21: Panel discussion on CTA, PSMA, C188, at the sidelines of IMO International Conference on Fishing Vessel Safety, Spain
October 2019: Briefing of South African Parliamentary committees that relate to ending IUU fishing and promoting sustainable small-scale fisheries (to be held in tandem with Consultations on ICC in the framework of the Pan-African Parliament, in partnership with Raddho), Johannesburg, South Africa
October 2019: Strategic Workshop on Engaging Policy Makers on International Biological Nonproliferation Frameworks, Parliament of Iraq, Baghdad

November 2019: Field Mission/Events to support the ICC ratification process, Kyiv, Ukraine
November 21-22: PGA’s 41st Annual Forum on The Role of Parliamentarians in the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 16 and 14: Promoting democratic renewal and inclusion, safeguarding human rights, and protecting the oceans , Parliament of Cape Verde, Praia

December 2-7: Participation to the 18^th Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court & organization of relevant PGA Side-Event(s), The Hague, The Netherlands
December 2019: Participation of PGA accompanied African Delegation in Annual Meeting of States Parties (MSP) to the Biological Weapons Convention – United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

February 14 & July 12: Meetings of the PGA UN Advisory Committee, New York
July 13-14: Executive Committee (Board) Meeting, PGA Headquarters, New York
November 23: Executive Committee and International Council Meetings, Praia, Cape Verde (TBC)