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Enhanced Partnership between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union - 31 October 2003
Rwanda leads world ranking of women in parliament - 22 October 2003
Iraq: IPU calls for establishment of a "constitutional convention" - 4 October 2003
Network of cooperation between UNESCO and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to be launched - 3 October 2003
Parliament’s role in ensuring peace and security and building an international coalition for peace: on the agenda of the 109th IPU Assembly - 29 September 2003
The Inter-Parliamentary Union welcomes overturn of Amina Lawal sentence - 25 September 2003
Meeting on the Electoral Rights of Citizens with Disabilities drafts electoral law provisions - 23 September 2003
Inauguration of the House of Parliaments - 19 September 2003
WTO Ministerial Conference: parliamentarians committed to promote free and fair trade that benefits people everywhere, enhances development and reduces poverty - 12 September 2003
Members of Parliament from 47 countries reiterate resolve to strengthen democracy worldwide - 9 September 2003
Parliamentarians debate the major issues before the WTO Ministerial Conference - 9 September 2003
MPs from some 40 countries join forces to fight desertification - 5 September 2003
Members of parliaments will meet in Cancun to oversee trade negotiations at the WTO Conference - 2 September 2003
Establishment of a working group of Israeli and Palestinian elected representatives to work constantly for cooperation - 17 July 2003
Knesset and PLC members to meet in Geneva under IPU auspices - 15 July 2003
President Páez pledges IPU support for the creation of a Pan-African Parliament - 1 July 2003
Parliaments to oversee trade negotiations at the WTO Conference in Cancún - 23 June 2003
The IPU presses for a humanitarian agreement in Colombia and calls for the liberation of Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar - 10 June 2003
The Inter-Parliamentary Union is concerned about the situation of Chilean MP Juan Pablo Letelier - 2 June 2003
The Inter-Parliamentary Union calls for a pardon for Amina Lawal of Nigeria - 8 May 2003
IPU recommends humanitarian agreement between Colombian government and FARC to put an end to detained MPs - 10 April 2003
108th IPU Conference appeals to states to take concrete measures for the total elimination of nuclear weapons - 10 April 2003
108th IPU Conference appeals for an end to the war in Iraq, emphasising importance of upholding international law and the UN Charter - 10 April 2003
IPU and UNHCR emphasise challenges to protecting refugees in the current conflict in Iraq and other humanitarian crises - 10 April 2003
IPU and DCAF launch handbook on control of security forces - 8 April 2003
The need to put an urgent end to the war in Iraq has been put on the agenda of the 108th Inter-Parliamentary Conference - 8 April 2003
Intense negotiations to formalise a supplementary emergency item on the situation in Iraq - 7 April 2003
IPU and UN launch a Handbook on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - 7 April 2003
President Ricardo Lagos inaugurates the 108th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Santiago de Chile - 6 April 2003
Women parliamentarians denounce the effects of the war on children and women - 6 April 2003
"At a time when the system for multilateral cooperation is under severe stress, the IPU pleaded for respect for the rule of law and human rights" - 18 March 2003
President Ricardo Lagos to open 108th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in Santiago de Chile - 7 March 2003
Political will indispensable for steady progress in women's participation in parliament - 5 March 2003
IPU and UNESCO envisage to create a parliamentary network on matters related to UNESCO - 25 February 2003
Declaration by the President of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Chilean Senator Sergio Páez, following the Executive Committee’s session of 19 and 20 February 2003 - 20 February 2003
MPs intend to enhance the transparency of WTO activities - 18 February 2003
"Parliaments have a special role in making the international trading system more open, more equitable, more predictable and non-discriminatory" - 18 February 2003
IPU and European Parliament organise jointly a Parliamentary Conference on WTO - 13 February 2003
Mr. M. Samarasinghe, Minister of Employment and Labour and Chief Government Whip of Sri Lanka, is elected new President of the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians - 23 January 2003
IPU Human Rights Committee to examine allegations of human rights violations affecting MPs in 28 countries during its 100th session - 17 January 2003