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Welcome to the eBulletin of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
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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Addressing the global economic and financial crisis
If past experience is anything to go by, the current crisis will have an adverse effect on the entire world, with the poor - the least able to bear the costs of economic hardships - the hardest hit. This prediction was made by a group of some of the world's most distinguished economists who met at the IPU Headquarters on 10 and 11 March 2009 for a brainstorming session under the chairmanship of Nobel Prize laureate, Joseph Stiglitz. [ Full story ... ]
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 | Equal sharing of care responsibilities at the heart of women’s empowerment |
Times of economic uncertainty call of for a review of the ways that contributions to a country’s development and welfare are assessed.
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| IPU field mission to Viet Nam examines One United Nations reform |
A delegation of the Advisory Group to the IPU Committee on United Nations Affairs traveled to Hanoi to take a closer look at the status of implementation of One UN reform in Viet Nam. [ Full story ... ]
| IPU Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS
at work in South Africa |
The IPU Advisory Group on HIV/AIDS held a series of events in South Africa during the week of 19-24 January 2009. [ Full story ... ]
| Enthusiastic response to IPU's self-assessment toolkit for parliaments |
Since its publication in September 2008, the reaction to the IPU’s self-assessment toolkit has been largely positive. The toolkit is intended to help parliaments analyse their performance, which in turn should lead them to formulate recommendations for reform. [ Full story ... ]
| Progress in an important
human rights case |
Mr. Ayman Nour, a former member of the Egyptian People's Assembly who had attracted international attention as a candidate in the presidential elections of September 2005, was released from prison on 18 February this year. [ Full story ... ]
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Middle East
IPU President tours the region
 In Gaza, evidence of destruction was everywhere. The delegation saw schools and a hospital lying in ruins, government buildings bombed out, an industrial area reduced to rubble and twisted metal, and a storage building in the UN compound destroyed. Individual dwellings, housing complexes and places of worship had been shattered through bombardment and tank fire. Fields had been burned out, plantations destroyed and olive trees uprooted.
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