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|  Peace and Democracy (P&D)
PGA's Task Force on Peace and Democracy set up in Abidjan, 1991 engages in parliamentary peace-making in liaison with intergovernmental systems. Conflict management work has taken place in Cote d'Ivoire, the Lusaka Peace process, and the Central African Republic, Haiti, Burundi, Suriname, Togo and Gabon. The Task Force has been invited to brief the UN Security Council in Arria's formulas several times and has responded to requests of intervention by the Secretary-General's Special Representatives. The task force has also worked closely with ECOWAS and the OAS. Peace-making dialogues on regional environmental issues have been undertaken bi-annually since 2001 with Greek and Turkish parliamentarians and Azeri-Armenian parliamentarians. Parliamentary dialogues on economic cooperation have been undertaken between South Asian and Turkish - Armenian parliamentarians. Seminars on parliamentary capacity-building on security issues with the budget, finance and defense committees have been held, most recently in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in September 2002. A follow-up regional seminar will be held in the parliament of Uganda in the Fall of 2004. |
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| | Contact Senior Officer : Peter Barcroft : e-mail - peter.barcroft@pgaction.org |
| Sustainable Development Health and Population (SDHP):
PGA's unique Junior Project Officer (JPO) program in West Africa builds legislators' capacity to address issues of sustainable development and population, at the national level in Mali and Nigeria (2002-2004), Ghana and Senegal (1999-2001), and also with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament.
At the global level, PGA organized a Parliamentary Workshop on Clean Air and Clean Water at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2002. Follow-up to WSSD will consist of a series of parliamentary bilateral exchanges on renewable energy between MPs from Egypt, Canada, Nigeria, Germany, India and the UK. PGA actively participated in UNFPA's Parliamentarians Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development, in Ottawa, Canada, November 2002. PGA has also led several parliamentary delegations to the U. S. Congress, to discuss the importance of U.S. support of global population and sustainable development issues. | | Contact Program Officer : Paras Vyas: e-mail - Paras@pgaction.org |
| International Law and Human Rights (ICC):
In 1989, A.N.R. Robinson, then PGA member and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, initiated the process within the United Nations to establish a permanent court to prosecute individuals who perpetrated international crimes as a means to prevent the commission of such crimes, end impunity and protect populations from the threat to peace that these crimes entail. Since then, PGA members under the PGA International Law and Human Rights Programme work towards overcoming political and technical obstacles to ensure the universal participation of States in the ICC. It strives to do so by way of new ratifications and accessions to the Rome Statute from countries in all the regions of the world, and through the preparation and adoption of effective national legislation that incorporates the crimes of the Rome Statute into national law, thereby allowing full cooperation of States with the ICC. The PGA ICC Campaign also supports the mobilization of members of parliament to protect the integrity of the Rome Statute, ensure the enforcement of the decisions of the ICC, and boost the international community's engagement to fighting impunity. As of May 14, 2008, the different initiatives and activities of PGA members have contributed to 61 of the 106 ratifications/accessions to the Rome Statute of the ICC to date. No other institution or organisation has been so intensively engaged in a global parliamentary campaign for the universality of the Rome Statute of the ICC. PGA is a founder and steering committee member of the Coalition of NGOs for the ICC. Since May 2008, PGA is also member of the steering committee of the Campaign Justice for Darfur that aims at the effective enforcement of the arrest warrants issued against individuals that have allegedly committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. |
| | More about the Current work of the ILHR Programme | | More about the History of PGA work on the ICC since 1989 | Contact Director: David Donat Cattin: e-mail - donat@pgaction.org
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