On 6 March 2025, PGA co-sponsored an event calling for urgency in upholding international justice in an increasingly hostile global environment. Organized by the NGO No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), the discussion took place during the EUmans Congress.
On 11 March 2025, Philippine authorities arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila and transferred him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
International Women’s Day (IWD), under the theme “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment”, is an opportunity to assess progress towards fulfilling women and girls’ rights and the challenges many of them still face worldwide.
We are living through an unprecedented shift in the international affairs order, one that attacks the underpinnings of the system established after World War II to protect freedoms and dignity for all human beings.
Our new strategic direction places PGA’s human rights-based approach, action-oriented advocacy, and empowerment of individual parliamentarians at the center of our work.
As we reflect on 2024 at Parliamentarians for Global Action, we are both humbled and inspired by the critical work that our member parliamentarians are engaged in every day.
On 22 November 2024, the Sixth Committee of the United Nations unanimously approved the “United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity”.
Rep. Jim Leach was an outspoken, early champion for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. As early as 1989, more than a decade before the ICC itself was established.
This annual event gathered States, international organizations, and civil society to discuss the ICC's budget, cooperation, complementarity, and management challenges.