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 | Helping Parliament in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
The year 2006 was a very eventful year in the recent history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was the year when the Congolese sought to take a long-term, hopefully permanent, break from more than 40 years of trauma brought about by misrule, violence, civil war and the attendant misery. [ Full story ... ]
| Global employment situation stagnating, MPs find at UN meeting |
Little has changed in the numbers of the unemployed and in conditions of work worldwide since governments underwrote the Declaration of the 1995 World Social Summit. Some 1.4 billion people continue to work for less than $2 a day. [ Full story ... ]
| Parliament: guarantor of fundamental freedoms in the information society |
Parliamentarians from around 66 parliaments recently converged on the Italian capital, Rome for a two-day international conference on the policymaking role of parliaments in the development of the information society. [ Full story ... ]
| Elucidating the assassination of a prominent MP in Bangladesh |
On 13 March 2007, Dr. Reza Kibria of Bangladesh paid a visit to the House of Parliaments in Geneva, to inform the IPU of important developments regarding the investigation into his father's assassination, and in particular the re-opening, on 7 March, of that investigation. [ Full story ... ]
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Event of the month
Combating violence against the girl child
 The IPU held its annual parliamentary meeting at the United Nations, in the context of the spring session of the Commission on the Status of Women. With the participation of over 150 legislators from around the world, the meeting sought to complement and enrich the deliberations of the UN Commission.
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