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Archive 2015 - Page 3

Parliament of Jordan, Amman, July 27, 2015

A follow-up Strategy meeting on Accountability for Mass-Atrocities and Strategies to Counter Violent Extremism and Protect Civilians in the MENA region

The public hearings of the ’Operation Condor’ Trial took place in the Aula Bunker of the High Court of Rome’s Penal Tribunal in Rebibbia.

On 9 and 10 July 2015, the Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), Dr. David Donat-Cattin, attended the public hearings of the ’Operation Condor’ Trial in the Aula Bunker of the High Court of Rome’s Penal Tribunal in Reb

Dep. Théophile Yombombe (Chad)

The National Assembly of Chad Ratifies Ordinance N006/PR/2015 banning child marriage by enforcing 18 as the minimum legal age of marriage in the country.

Hon. Pindi Chana (Tanzania), Chairperson of the International Council of PGA, Deputy Minister of Family Affairs, Youth, and Gender (center, in yellow suit), led the PGA Delegation that met with the President of the Senate of Haiti (center, in grey suit).

International Justice Day Statement by Hon. Dr. Pindi Chana, MP (Tanzania), in her capacity as Chairperson of the International Council, Parliamentarians for Global Action

President of PGA National Group in Chile, Dip. Tucapel Jimenez

President of PGA National Group in Chile, Dip. Tucapel Jimenez, makes a parliamentary declaration requesting the Government to send the Bill on cooperation with the ICC to Parliament

© Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica

MPs from Costa Rica and El Salvador strategized over progressing their respective processes of domestic implementation and ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC .

PGA Delegates meeting with Board of Directors, Legislative Assembly of El Salvador

PGA Members, Dip. Berta Sanseverino (Uruguay), Dip. Manuel Garrido (Argentina), and Dip. Tucapel Jiménez (Chile), along with PGA program staff, Mónica Adame and Romina Morello, conducted a field mission to El Salvador.

PGA Members Ms. Barbara Lochbihler, MEP (Germany) and Mr. Helmut Scholz, MEP (Germany)

Vor hundert Jahren, am 9. Juli 1915, endete die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft im heutigen Namibia. Zwischen 1904 und 1908 ermordeten die Kolonialherren dort 90.000 Herero und Nama.

PGA Commends the Italian Judiciary for the Historic Trial of Certain Leaders of ’Operation Condor’

PGA commends the Italian Judiciary for the historic trial of certain leaders of ‘Operation Condor’ and asks that victims and witnesses from Latin America be heard and treated with dignity and respect for their inalienable rights.

The Resolution demonstrates a growing commitment and global support towards ending child, early, and forced marriage.

PGA commends the United Nations Human Rights Council for its recent adoption of a Resolution on Child, Early and Forced Marriage during its 29th session.

PGA Member, Hon. James Selfe, MP (South Africa)

Hon. James Selfe recently joined PGA amidst the unfolding events around the neglect of the ICC arrest warrants, as well as the national Gauteng High Court orders, for the arrest of Omar Al-Bashir. During the debates in the South African people’s assembly

PGA High-Level Roundtable Discussion and Strategy Meeting on the 1 for 7 Billion Campaign

The next UN Secretary-General will have the responsibility of implementing the United Nation’s most critical decisions and commitments. The 1 for 7 billion campaign believes that the process must be worthy of the post itself.

Capacity Building Session on Child, Early and Forced Marriage for Tanzanian Parliamentarians - Segment One

PGA convened a Parliamentary Delegation to Dar es Salaam and Dodoma, Tanzania on June 17-22, 2015 to hold meetings with relevant stakeholders and partners on CEFM issues and to discuss the best strategies through which PGA can contribute to their work

Seminar to support the ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC in Ukraine

Are further delays in ratification of the Rome Statute presenting a lost opportunity to provide for justice in Ukraine? Can Rome Statute ratification in fact help the high-level peace negotiations? Will the ICC replace national Ukrainian courts?

PGA Malaysia will promote and advance the abolition of the death penalty in Malaysia.

From 10 to 13 June, PGA conducted a field mission on the abolition of the death penalty and the fight against impunity in the margins of the South-East Asia Regional Congress on the abolition of the death penalty organized by Ensemble Contre la Peine de M

Seminar to support the ratification of the Rome Statute of the ICC in Ukraine

PGA, in partnership with the Human Rights Agenda and the Razumkov Center organized a Parliamentary Expert & Peer-Exchange Roundtable Discussions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) from June 18-19, 2015 at the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine

Prof. Otto Triffterer with Dr. DonatCattin, Chris Hall, Moreno Ocampo at Salzburg Law School 2008

Earlier this month, on June 1, 2015, the world lost one of the most innovative and charismatic legal thinkers of our times, Professor Dr. Otto Triffterer.

PGA Member Senator David Musila

Why Kenya must accede to arms treaty, By DAVID MUSILA

Mr. Harry van Bommel, MP, The Netherlands, “PGA Member of the month May 2015”

The PGA Secretariat has the pleasure of highlighting this month’s work on the ratification of the Rome Statute by Armenia, with 10 questions to Mr. Harry van Bommel, MP, The Netherlands.