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FIPA is an independent network of the national legislatures of the member governments of the Organization of American States (OAS). Its goal is to promote parliamentary participation in the inter-American system and to develop inter-parliamentary dialogue on issues of importance to the citizens of the hemisphere. In providing a forum for parliamentarians of the Americas to engage with each ...

A vote has to be a thing worth having. It has to bring dividends, in the form of government which benefits normal people, in the form of efficient, transparent, fair, accountable institutions that administer service, and – ultimately – in the form of a better life, and peace and prosperity for all.”

The Parliamentary Delegation of the Canadian Branch which attended the Seminar of the APF Network of Women Parliamentarians on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 3 and 4, 2007, has the honour to present its report. Comprising the Honourable Rose-Marie Losier-Cool, Senator and Vice-President of the ...

Discussion also included an evaluation of the state of poverty alleviation around the world, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the steps necessary to make the achievement of SDG 1 – “End poverty in all its forms everywhere” – a reality.

The Statutes and Rules of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) permits members to form geopolitical groups. These groups play an important role in the functioning and activities of the IPU. Canada belongs to the Twelve Plus Group and Canadian parliamentarians occasionally participate in meetings of its Steering Committee of representatives from approximately seven to nine member-countries.

In Northern Ireland, this devolution took the form of the Northern Ireland Executive and Departments (the executive) and the Northern Ireland Assembly (the legislature). Simply stated, the Assembly holds the Executive to account for its policy and legislative proposals, as well as economic, budgetary and other financial decisions.

The purpose of the meeting was to remind them of the existence and importance of the Network, and to explain its three priorities as determined in Libreville: children’s rights, the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and human trafficking.

In the Charter for European Security, adopted at the November 1999 Istanbul Summit, the heads of state and of government of the participating countries agreed to “address the human, economic, political and military dimensions of security as an integral whole.”([3]) All forms of peaceful cooperation between the participating countries are ...

October 31, 2023 Meeting of CAIL membership with the family members of hostages taken in the October 7 attacks on Israel Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group (CAIL)

The IPU supports the efforts of the United Nations, whose objectives it shares, and works in close cooperation with it. It also cooperates with regional inter-parliamentary organizations, as well as with international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations which are motivated by the same ideals.