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.
There is an inherent connection between thriving democracies and protecting the most vulnerable, including indigenous communities, women, children, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) persons. The participation of historically marginalized groups in politics yields concrete democratic gains, in turn building more resilient democracies.
PGA’s International Law and Human Rights (ILHR) Program seeks to support and promote the prevention of serious human rights violations, including international crimes, and accountability of perpetrators when they do occur.
PGA’s International Peace and Security Program focuses on marshalling global parliamentary support for improved regulation of the international arms trade, in particular where its inadequacies play a demonstrated role in destabilizing countries, causing or fuelling conflict and/or delay the emergence of countries from conflict.
PGA’s Human Rights and Environment Program aims to empower parliamentarians to take action towards the protection of human rights in environmental matters, underscored by the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment for present and future generations.
Increasing consensus holds that democracy is in decline globally. As human rights abuses amass, democratic practices are abandoned, and justice retreats, parliamentarians are on the frontlines. Members of parliament (MPs) have the mandate and responsibility to stand against these dangerous trends.
This campaign mobilizes parliamentarians as human rights champions, taking action to guarantee that every individual has equal value, lives with dignity and is able to achieve their highest potential free from all forms of violence and discrimination, including on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).
The goal of this campaign is to empower parliamentarians to become leaders in the defense and promotion of the human rights of girls and women.
This Campaign seeks to raise awareness and implement the Escazú Agreement as a tool for climate governance and to ensure the three rights of access to: information, participation, and justice in environmental matters.
The Oceans covers 70 percent of the world’s surface and provides for half of the oxygen in our atmosphere. This means that every second breath we take comes from the Ocean - yet laws governing its appropriate use are almost non-existent. Today’s maritime laws are outdated and have hardly developed in the past century.
This campaign aims to promote a universal culture of upholding the Rule of Law, human rights and human dignity, by contributing to put an end to impunity for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. It does so by advancing access to justice for victims through the universal ratification and effective implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Every victim has a right to see the person responsible held to account in a court of law; but the death penalty is not justice, it is revenge.
While the world advances towards digitalization, the use of and dependance on information technology, networks and databases has become more and more pervasive in society. Targeting and illegally exploiting computer systems and data have also become increasingly common. The COVID-19 global pandemic has spurred an unprecedented increase in cyber-based illegal activities both in number and in sophistication.
The severe threat to humanity posed by the acquisition, possession and use of WMDs by hostile state and/or non-state actors, combined with the onset of more sophisticated and complex terrorism threats and actions in recent years, has renewed interest in and commitment to ensuring greater global participation and implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention and implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004).
The Convention for the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials (CPPNM) was adopted on 26th October 1979 and entered into force on 8th February, 1987. CPPNM provides for certain levels of physical protection during the international transport of nuclear material, in addition to establishing a general framework for cooperation among States in the protection, recovery, and return of stolen nuclear material.
The PGA Campaign to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism was part of an advocacy effort to address and eliminate the theoretical/ideological and practical bases of violent extremism.
The PCSW-UN was PGA’s targeted effort to strengthen the UN System and ensure that treaties, resolutions, and action points discussed at the UN were being effectively implemented in their respective countries.
The widespread misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW) has resulted in an extensive range of negative humanitarian and socio-economic consequences including loss of life and grievous injuries, while also contributing to the commission of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.