October 25, 2016
Voicing her concern about a recently passed law by the US Congress, Dr. Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), has urged parliamentarians to protect the sovereignty of states and prevent their being subjected to other countries' judiciary systems.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/10/amal-al-qubaisi-stresses-importance-of-parliamentarians-role-in-protecting-national-sovereignty/
May 21, 2012
Have women around the world become more empowered in their reproductive health and rights over the past 18 years? This is one of the questions that some 300 parliamentarians from around the world will be examining when they meet in Istanbul, Turkey, this week for the Fifth International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) programme of action.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/05/parliamentarians-track-progress-on-reproductive-rights/
July 26, 2011
Rwanda is the first country in the world where women outnumber men in parliament, with women occupying 45 out of 80 seats. However, despite this, experts say that the country still needs a gender equality perspective on how national resources and programmes are implemented.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2011/07/rwanda-women-parliamentarians-outnumber-men-but-gender-budgeting-still-needed/
May 18, 2011
Ahead of this month's G8 summit in France, parliamentarians from 35 countries have issued a strong call for leaders of the world's major economies to focus on the role of women and girls in development.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2011/05/parliamentarians-ask-g8-to-focus-on-women/
May 28, 2009
In a move reflecting growing anger towards Burma, parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia want the military-ruled country suspended from a 10-member regional bloc for the unjust treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s pro-democracy leader.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2009/05/asia-parliamentarians-turn-heat-on-burma-for-suu-kyi-trial/
December 13, 2008
A group of leading politicians head for a secret meeting with the powerful army chief as part of a plot to form a new government. But their plans go awry when they get lost in the sprawling military compound.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2008/12/politics-thailand-business-as-usual-parliamentarians-for-sale/
March 18, 2008
The link between global warming and poverty, and the effects of poverty on women, will be among the topics put in the spotlight during the 118th assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which takes place next month in the South African port city of Cape Town.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2008/03/politics-parliamentarians-to-tackle-poverty/
November 30, 2007
No fanfare was made in Brussels in the past week over European Union officials' breakthrough in the trade talks on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with almost 80 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2007/11/trade-africa-epas-under-fire-from-european-parliamentarians/
August 30, 2007
Malawi's national budget, scheduled to pass in June, is in limbo following a parliamentary impasse - and there are fears that government services may be halted through lack of funding.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2007/08/politics-malawi-budget-held-hostage-to-squabbling-parliamentarians/
March 8, 2006
The European Union marked International Women's Day Wednesday by launching a campaign against sexual exploitation of women during big sporting events.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2006/03/intl-womens-day-parliamentarians-show-prostitution-the-red-card/
December 20, 2005
European parliamentarians are calling for ''targeted sanctions" against the Ethiopian government unless the current human rights situation in the country improves significantly.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2005/12/rights-ethiopia-europarliamentarians-urge-action/
November 23, 2004
A joint assembly of members of the European Parliament and representatives from some of the poorest countries has been invited to consider six "myths" about new trade agreements.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/11/development-eu-parliamentarians-presented-some-myths/
August 4, 2004
In the midst of the continuing debate in Sri Lanka over the moral right of the Buddhist clergy to take on politics, fresh controversy has been created by a group of Buddhist monk-MPs who have proposed laws to ban religious conversions.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/08/sri-lanka-monk-parliamentarians-stir-hornets-nest/
February 11, 2004
Parliamentary disputes are not always fought with words; politicians are routinely abducted, detained or killed, reported the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in a briefing at U.N. headquarters Tuesday.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/02/rights-parliamentarians-as-targets/
September 10, 2003
A former member of parliament in Bangladesh, Prof Khaleda Khanam recalls her trips into the rural areas of the country with delight. ''I used to counsel the women to take part in nation-building activities and send their daughters to schools,'' she said. ''Their response was tremendous.''
https://www.ipsnews.net/2003/09/politics-bangladesh-women-parliamentarians-face-tense-future/
December 1, 2000
Is 'female circumcision' a legitimate cultural practice or a degrading act of cruelty? Speakers at an International Day against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) held at the European Parliament in the Belgian capital this week were in no doubt it was the latter.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2000/12/health-european-parliamentarians-stage-global-day-to-end-female-genital-mutilation/
October 12, 2000
Parliamentarians from the European Union (EU) and the 77 states of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group held a public hearing here Thursday to examine the effectiveness of their combined efforts to deal with the AIDS epidemic.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2000/10/health-development-eu-acp-parliamentarians-focus-on-fight-against-aids/
September 21, 2000
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on European Commission and EU governments to work together when drawing up development policy to avoid a repeat of the drift and duplication that have characterised the policy in recent years.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2000/09/politics-europe-parliamentarians-urge-joint-approach-to-development-aid/
September 6, 2000
The European Parliament has called for the European Union's humanitarian role to be strengthened to allow it to deal quicker, more effectively and more efficiently with potential conflicts and the aftermath of disasters.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2000/09/development-eu-parliamentarians-want-to-strengthen-humaniatarian-office/
July 1, 2000
The role of the media as watchdogs over government policy has, curiously, pitted two journalistic veterans in a public exchange over questions of accuracy here, but there is evidence that public opinion over a possible 1.5 million-dollar pay-out to government ministers had changed the course of the controversial move.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2000/07/st-lucia-government-abandons-huge-pay-out-plan-for-parliamentarians/
October 18, 1998
The wheels of justice may grind slowly in India but the law finally is cracking down on delinquent parliamentarians who don't pay their utility bills.
https://www.ipsnews.net/1998/10/economy-india-parliamentarians-dunned-for-debts/