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.
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Members of Parliament, academics, and experts gathered to discuss how best to contribute to the formation of international law in the face of the current and multiple challenges it faces.
PGA operates under the political direction of the Executive Committee and the International Council, with technical and legal assistance from the Secretariat, which is based in New York and has an office in The Hague.
PGA welcomes such an important development for the status of human rights in the Central African Republic: although the country had been abolitionist in practice as no executions have taken place since 1981, legally ensuring the abolition of the death penalty is a crucial step to prevent any ratchet effect.
Parliamentarians Worldwide to Advance Global Criminal Justice and Support for the ICC
Increasing consensus holds that democracy is in decline globally. Elements of backsliding include progressive erosion of such principles as separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial independence...
This Webinar is the first of a series of 8 virtual projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean aimed at facilitating and encouraging parliamentary diplomacy in Promoting Nuclear and Radiological Security
Hon. Margareta Cederfelt MP, President, PGA Addressed the Swedish Parliament on the occassion of the Launch of Parliamentary Handbook on Disarmament for Security and Sustainable Development
PGA calls for the International Community to support a genuine process of peace-making, stabilization and State-building based on the respect of human rights, justice and democracy
This edition focuses on the changes of leadership at the Court, the outcomes of our annual Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the International Criminal Court (CAP-ICC), and our accomplishments.
This year, the CAP-ICC was held virtually because of the restrictions stemming from the current global health crisis.
The National Assembly has voted to adopt the law on the General Regime of Conventional Weapons, Their Parts, Components and Munitions.
This year, rising awareness about the importance of the ocean for all life on Earth has translated into a renewed compromise to robust protective international and domestic legal frameworks.
Stories of parliamentary democracy defenders in partnership with the Democracy Decay & Renewal project.
PGA organized a Parliamentary Workshop to Promote Women Parliamentarians in Africa in Preventing the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the National Assembly of The Gambia in Banjul - 16-17 May, 2019.
We have been alarmed by recent reports about the inaction of the United Nations peace-keeping operation MINUSCA ) in the face of the commission of atrocities by armed groups.
On 4 and 5 October 2018, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) organised in the National Assembly of the Central-African Republic (CAR), in Bangui, a Technical Seminar on Strengthening the Legal Framework of the Fight against Impunity.
CAR - PGA Congratulates the Government of The Central African Republic on becoming the 182nd State Party to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
PGA Congratulates National Assembly of Central African Republic on Ratification of Biological Weapons Convention on 3rd July 2018.
The Central African Republic is formally retentionist but has applied a moratorium since 1981. In 2017, no death sentence was handed out.
A critical report that traces the weaknesses of civil society.
Dep. Epaye wrote to the Foreign Minister of Central African Republic.
The Workshop brought together several prominent Legislators and Government officials for a two day period to discuss and review the Biological & Toxin Weapon Convention (BTWC).
PGA strongly supports the creation of a Special Criminal Court to fight against impunity for the international crimes committed since 2012 in the territory of the Central African Republic (CAR).
PGA welcomes the decision of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open a second investigation in CAR with respect to crimes allegedly committed since 2012.