PGA’s vision is to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe, sustainable and democratic world.
PGA’s vision is to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe, sustainable and democratic world.
PGA held a Strategy Meeting on the Contribution of Parliamentarians to the Negotiation of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations on 8 April, 2010.
PGA international Council member Senator Tom Harkin called it a
PGA organized a Parallel Side Meeting in conjunction with the 54th CSW on the topic of Role of Policymakers in Governance, Development and Women's Empowerment on March 11, 2010 at the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN.
The discussions provided for an update of the status of national implementing legislation of the Rome Statute in the represented countries, and also a forum to discuss the principles that characterize the jurisdiction of the ICC.
Diputado Sigfrido Reyes (Deputy Speaker , Legislative Assembly of El Salvador) intervenes on behalf of PGA sharing our position on the agenda items at the forthcoming Review Conference of the Rome Statute
From December 10-12, 2009, PGA held an International Parliamentary Conference on Justice and Peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Great Lakes and Central African regions in the Palais du Peuple, seat of the Parliament of the DRC in Kinshasa.
On December 2, 2009, the PGA International Secretariat, in association with the PGA National Group Nepal, organized a Roundtable Meeting on the ICC in Kathmandu, Nepal.
On Friday, October 23, 2009 Mr. Stephen Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues briefed the Members of the Board and International Council of PGA on current US policy on accountability, international justice and the International Criminal Cou
"Environment, Energy Management and the Global Economy". United States Congress, Washington, DC. October 20-22, 2009.
Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) presented the 2009 Defender of Democracy Awards to Mr. Kailash Satyarthi of India, Founder/Chair of the Global March Against Child Labor, and Ch. Aitzaz Ahsan of Pakistan, Barrister-at-Law, Senior Advocate Supreme
With the ratification of the Rome Statute by the Czech Republic in July 2009, every Member State of the EU is now a State Party to the ICC.
From 24-25 September 2009, and upon the invitation of the Vice-President of the National Assembly of El Salvador, Mr. Sigfrido Reyes, MP (FMLN, PGA Member), a Delegation of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) visited the National Assembly of El Salva
Venezuela was the first State from Latin America to become a State Party to the Rome Statute on June 7, 2000, but has yet to incorporate the Statute in its legal order. Accordingly, on September 22, 2009, upon the initiative and invitation of PGA Board Me
PGA participated at this year’s 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia Pacific (ICAAP) in Bali, Indonesia on August 9-13, 2009 with the central theme of Empowering People, Strengthening Networks.
On August 11, 2009, PGA held an informal Bilateral Dialogue in Bali, Indonesia on Aceh’s Conflict solving and Revenue Sharing Experiences: Lessons for Balochistan, Pakistan which brought together a group of legislators from the Balochistan province of
Today’s deposit of the Instrument of Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the Czech Republic at the United Nations in New York brings to 110 the number of States that have joi
Chile signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 11 September 1998. Following the adoption of the Crimes Bill and a constitutional amendment by the National Congress in the past few months, PGA celebrates both the decision of the Sena
On 18-19 June 2009, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) held a Strategy Meeting on the Politics of International Criminal Justice in The Hague, hosted by Mr. Coskun Coruz, MP at the Parliament of the Netherlands and by the International Criminal Cour