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National Parliamentary Session on Promoting Nuclear and Radiological Security in Kathmandu, Nepal

While Nepal is already a State Party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other agreements, to date action is still pending with respect to several other crucial international conventions and treaties.

Nepal and the Rome Statute

PGA has been working with Nepal for over more than ten years and continues to do so since Nepal is a target country of the Campaign for the Rome Statute of the ICC.

Nepal and the Death Penalty

Nepal’s Constitution abolished the capital penalty in 1990 and criminal law was amended to abolish it for all crimes in 1997.

Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians on the ICC and the Rule of Law - 9th session

Dakar, Senegal, 9-10 December, 2016. Parliamentarians of the world unite their voice in support of the ICC.

Nepal and Liberia deposit Instruments of Ratification of Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

PGA wishes to warmly congratulate, and pay tribute to, its Members in Nepal and Liberia for their central and essential contributions, culminating in the ratifications by Liberia and Nepal of the Biological Weapons Convention.

Nepal Signs Instrument of Ratification of BWC

Foreign Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal and PGA Member, Hon. Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat (MP) notifies PGA that Parliament has approved Biological Weapons Convention Bill.

PGA Regional Asia Parliamentary Round Table Meeting on Addressing the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons

Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday, 27th February, 2016

PGA Congratulates Hon. Ramesh Lekhak for his Crucial Advocacy Leading to Decision by Cabinet of Government of Nepal to Refer The Biological Weapons Convention to Constituent Assembly for Approval

PGA Congratulates longstanding Member Hon. Ramesh Lekhak for his Crucial Advocacy Leading to Decision by Cabinet of Government of Nepal to Refer BWC to Constituent Assembly for Approval

PGA Member, Ramesh Lekhak, MP, comments on the adoption of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 which protects sexual and gender minorities from discrimination

Nepal joins eight other countries that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in their constitution.

PGA Regional Asia Parliamentary Workshop to Address The Illicit Trade In Small Arms and Light Weapons and Mitigate Armed Violence

Members of Parliament from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal and Pakistan, as well as representatives from the Security/Defense Sector and civil society in Bangladesh actively participated in the Workshop.

Visit by Delegation of 3 Members of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal to The Hague

Organized by PGA, a Delegation of 3 Members of the Constituent Delegation of Nepal participated in a series of high level bilateral meetings at the International Criminal Court in mid September 2011.

Second PGA Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Consultation on the Universality of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Following on from the First PGA Asian Consultation on the ICC held in the House of Representatives in The Philippines four years ago, the purpose of this second Consultation was to review current ratification and implementation processes of the Rome Statu

International HIV & AIDS Seminar: National Policies to Support National Frameworks

Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) organized a Parliamentary Seminar on HIV policy in Kathmandu, Nepal, February 24 - 26, 2009. The seminar brought together 100 participants, including parliamentary delegations from Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh,

Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the ICC and the Rule of Law - 4th Session

and 28th Annual Parliamentary Forum. Tokyo, Japan, December 4-5, 2006.

Asian Parliamentarians Consultation on the Universality of the ICC

Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), together with the Philippines Coalition for the ICC and the Coalition for the ICC (CICC), Asia and the Pacific organized an Asian Parliamentarians Consultation on the Universality of the International Criminal Cou