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The High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is the United Nations hub for the global review of progress toward the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a contribution to the HLPF, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) holds an annual Parliamentary Forum, which was designed to give parliamentarians participating in the HLPF an opportunity to discuss the main theme of the ...

During their presentations and the question-and-answer portion of the workshop, the panelists stressed the importance on both the signing and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Human rights, terrorism, Iraq, Palestine, the Ottawa Convention, visa issues and the tragedy of the HIV-infected children of Benghazi were discussed. It was agreed that a memorandum of understanding would be signed at the end of the visit to express the mutual agreement to enhance relations between the Canadian Senate and the General People’s ...

The session featured presentations by Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General of the IPU; Ms. Anita Bhatia, UN Women; Ms. Hilary Gbedemah, Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women Committee; and Ms. Carmen Alanis, Former Chief Justice of Mexico.

The Honourable David McGuinty, P.C., M.P., President of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and the Union interparlementaire (UIP) Executive Committee Vice-President for the Twelve Plus geopolitical Group (12+), the Honourable Salma Ataullahjan, Senator and President of the IPU Committee on Middle East Questions and Sven Spengemann, M.P. and member of the Bureau of the ...

Presentations from these communities (including a Canadian researcher) initiated discussion on such topics as the strengths and weaknesses of existing international mechanisms (Sustainable Development Goals) and treaties (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) in facilitating domestic legislative processes.

The Honourable David McGuinty, P.C., M.P., President of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (UIPU) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Executive Committee Vice-President for the Twelve Plus geopolitical group, participated in the fifth online sitting of the 285th session of the International Executive Committee which took place on April 9, 2021. Members discussed a number ...

While in Haiti, the delegation visited the Bernard Mevs Hospital, a private hospital run in partnership with Project Medishare and Broken Earth, and the Argentine Belgarde National School, which benefits from the United Nations World Food Programme's (WFP) School Feeding Program in Haiti, a program supported by the Government of Canada. The delegation also laid a wreath at the Memorial ...

In the third and final webinar of a series on climate change legislation hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, participants discussed the risks to social stability posed by climate change and the various domestic ...

During their presentations and the question-and-answer portion of the workshop, the panelists stressed the importance on both the signing and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.