PGA welcomes the transfer of Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the rebel movement, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and deputy commander to LRA chief, Joseph Kony, to the International Court
A session of round table discussion on Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), an important subject of International Peace and Security (P&D) Program of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), was held on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 in Parliament House, Pakistan.
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the arrest and arbitrary detention since 28 December 2014 of Sheikh Ali Salman, the respected Secretary-General of Bahrain’s largest opposition society, Al Wefaq National Islamic Society.
PGA firmly condemns the shocking attack carried out by terrorists at the office of the Charlie Hebdo publication in Paris yesterday.
PGA earnestly applauds the arrest of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) ‘commander’ by US forces in CAR, Dominic Ongwen
PGA co-organised with Chatham House (“The Royal Institute of International Affairs”) a high-level Roundtable of Parliamentarians and Experts on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
PGA wishes to congratulate Zimbabwe and all its Members in its PGA National Group in the Parliament of Zimbabwe on the occasion of the signature by Zimbabwe yesterday of the ATT.
PGA Congratulates Liechtenstein on its ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty and becoming the 57th State Party thereto
Parliament of Morocco hosts 8th Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the ICC and the Rule of Law in Rabat
PGA wishes to congratulate Cameroon on signing the Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations in New York yesterday.
I am very pleased that the National Assembly of Cote d’Ivoire has voted on November 26, 2014 to approve a bill to authorize the President of Côte d’Ivoire to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty.
PGA Congratulates Co-Convenor of Peace & Democracy Program, Dip. Margarita Stolbizer (Argentina) on being named by United Nations as a Major Contributor to Disarmament from Latin America.
PGA pays tribute to its former President (1995-1996) Hon. Murli Deora of India, who passed away this week after an extremely successful political and institutional career as Parliamentarian, Cabinet Minister and Entrepreneur.
PGA wishes to express its consternation at the decision by an Iraqi Court to sentence to death former Sunni MP Ahmed al-Alwani on 24 November, 2014.