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This electronic newsletter provides you with latest information on the activities of the IPU, the international organization of Parliaments of sovereign States. The newsletter is published six times a year and appears in English and French.
An archive of past issues is available.
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Building national ownership of the "One UN reform"
In September 2008, a parliamentary field visit to Tanzania undertook to examine the status of implementation of One United Nations Reform at the national level. As a follow-up to this mission, the IPU convened a panel discussion at UN Headquarters in New York on Progress in implementing One UN Reform: Political challenges, parliamentary perspectives. [ Full story ... ]
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 | Parliamentarians' information and knowledge needs |
Some 200 parliamentarians, Secretaries General and staff of parliamentary library and research services took part in a one-day Conference on parliamentary information, held in Geneva on 16 October. [ Full story ... ]
| Parliamentarians take action on maternal and newborn health |
Every minute somewhere in the world a woman dies due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth, accounting for more than half a million maternal deaths per year. [ Full story ... ]
| Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development |
Led by the President of the IPU, Dr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, a contingent of some 50 members of parliament attended the follow-up Conference held in Doha, Qatar. [ Full story ... ]
| Parliament of Kenya partners with IPU
to drive reconciliation agenda |
The tragic events that followed the disputed presidential elections of December 2007 in Kenya seriously tarnished the country’s reputation as a haven of peace and stability in Africa.
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| Inter-community dialogue on human rights and promoting a culture of peace |
Any national reconciliation process that aims to be effective and efficient cannot dispense with the requirement to bring together, in addition to the parties to the conflict, all relevant sociopolitical stakeholders. [ Full story ... ]
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Hearing at UN
Peacekeeping and prevention of conflict
The Annual Parliamentary Hearing, convened jointly by the IPU and the Office of the President of the UN General Assembly, was held on 20 and 21 November, bringing together some two hundred legislators from over sixty countries for an interactive discussion with UN officials, government representatives and experts drawn from think tanks and civil society organizations. Four topics were chosen for discussion.
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