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By Honorable Dorcas Sibanda, MP Zimbabwe & Chair of PGA’s National Group - February 6, 2019
Zimbabwe is de facto abolitionist: although it retains capital punishment in its criminal law, the country has not carried out any execution since 2005.
Papua New Guinea is abolitionist in practice since 1950: although it retains the death penalty in law, no execution has taken place since 1954.
Nepal’s Constitution abolished the capital penalty in 1990 and criminal law was amended to abolish it for all crimes in 1997.
Ecuador is abolitionist since 1906. Ecuador ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1969 as well as the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The year 2018 was defined by numerous achievements by PGA. We are delighted to share with you our efforts towards a more equitable, just and peaceful world, with growth and progress in each of our three programmes.
A parliamentary handbook that details the contributions parliamentarians can make in addressing the grave threats posed by weapons of mass destruction.
The members of the Legislative Administrative Council met on Tuesday, 29 January 2019 to evaluate several bills.
On January 23, 2019, Angola’s Parliament adopted a new penal code, removing the “vices against nature” provision inherited from the time of Portugal’s colonization, which was considered a ban on private same-sex sexual relations between consenting adults.
Dep. Jean Wyllys, Chair of the PGA National Group in Brazil and a leading Parliamentarian from the opposition has announced his decision to retire from Parliament following death-threats and other virulent, inhumane attacks.
Senator Mian Raza Rabbani has recently introduced a bill on ‘Ratification of Foreign Agreements by Parliament’.
Ecuadorian PGA members commited to further the implementation of the Rome Statute.
De Lima, the most prominent political prisoner under the Duterte administration, said she is grateful for the continued support she is getting from the international community.
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an opinion on the case of the politically motivated detention of Senator Leila De Lima (Philippines), PGA Member.
On 12 December 2018, the plenary of the House of Deputies of Paraguay approved the draft ratification bill on the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on war crimes and the crime of aggression.
Jim McGovern, Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
PGA congratulates the Government of Mozambique for this important and decisive step forward in promoting national, regional and international peace and security.
