A recent report by the Bahá'í Community of Canada found that “Iran’s state-sponsored campaign of hatred against the Bahá'í Faith has been on the rise across all media platforms, including the web, social media, radio, newspapers, and television.”
On 12 July 2021, Member of Parliament and former President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Mr. Freddy Guevara, was a victim of enforced disappearance after being arbitrarily detained for more than 55 hours...
PGA congratulates Croatia on ratifying four amendments to the Rome Statute on war crimes, including the most recent one on starvation as a punishable offence in non-international armed conflicts.
Participants and panelists had the opportunity to discuss several situations in the region under the current challenging global context caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the social protests that have taken place in several countries.
Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) adopted Bill 2689 “On amendments to certain legislative acts on the Enforcement of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law”
PGA strongly condemns the coup d’état that took place today in Myanmar and urges the Myanmar military "to respect the rule of law" and "release immediately all civilian leaders and others who have been detained unlawfully.”
The ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly was created to bring together the members of the European Parliament and the elected representatives of the ACP countries that have signed the Cotonou Agreement.
PGA is regularly invited by the EU with other NGOs to provide briefings and analysis to, and share assessments of challenges and relevant updates on the fight against impunity with, EU Members States and relevant European institutions attending the COJUR.
The European Parliament and its individual members have been at the forefront of multilateral efforts to establish, consolidate and expand the membership of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
On 7 December 2020, the Council of the European Union adopted two binding instruments establishing a framework to sanction individuals, legal persons, entities or bodies, responsible for committing serious human rights abuses.