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By Honorable Dorcas Sibanda, MP Zimbabwe & Chair of PGA’s National Group - February 6, 2019

Le Zimbabwe est abolitionniste de facto : bien que le droit pénal prévoi toujours la peine capitale, aucune exécution n’a eu lieu depuis 2005.

La Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée est abolionniste en pratique depuis 1950 : bien que la peine capitale existe toujours en droit pénal, aucune exécution n’a eu lieu depuis 1954.

La Constitution du Népal a aboli la peine de mort en 1990 et le droit pénal a été amendé afin de l’abolir pour tous les crimes en 1997.

L’Equateur est abolitionniste depuis 1906. Il a ratifié le Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques (PIDCP) en 1969 et le Deuxième Protocole facultatif sur l'abolition de la peine de mort (PIDCP-OP2) en 1993.

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’.

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.

PGA congratulates the Government of Mozambique for this important and decisive step forward in promoting national, regional and international peace and security.