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Gurirab endorses Ouattara election, cautions against violence - 17 December 2010
"To deny the existence of the Holocaust is an insult to our conscience as human beings", declares the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union - 13 December 2006
The IPU condemns the military coup d'état in Fiji - 5 December 2006
Wake-up call for all political decision-makers to oversee government action in the field of international trade - 2 December 2006
The political cost of failure of the WTO negotiations should perhaps be considered as the most compelling reason for reaching a deal - 1 December 2006
Parliamentary committees to discuss ways to achieve gender equality - 1st December 2006
Parliamentarians to call for resumption of WTO negotiations - 28 November 2006
IPU calls on Parliaments to step up action to combat violence against women - 24 November 2006
Assassination of Pierre Gemayel. IPU alarmed by escalating violence in Lebanon - 21 November 2006
21 November 2006 - World Television Day. Success of parliamentary TV channels proves interest in parliamentary activities - 20 November 2006
IPU and the UN to inaugurate in Rome the Office of the Global Centre for Information and Communication Technologies in Parliament - 16 November 2006
IPU and United Nations to strengthen operational partnership in conflict prevention and peace-building - 14 November 2006
IPU President meets Speaker of Egyptian Parliament - 27 October 2006
Legislators in Geneva condemn the Democratic People's Republic of Korea nuclear weapons test - 18 October 2006
"Parliaments are critical in our collective fight against poverty", said World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz at the 115th IPU Assembly - 17 October 2006
The announcement by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of its nuclear weapons test adopted as emergency item at 115th IPU Assembly - 16 October 2006
Panel on IPU Committee on Human Rights of MPs commemorates thirty years defending free speech - 16 October 2006
Conference on parliaments, parliamentary TV channels and public broadcasters in Geneva - 16 October 2006
Parliamentary diplomacy in action at the 115th IPU Assembly in Geneva - 13 October 2006
"Torture is unacceptable under any circumstances and in any situation" said legislators from more than 40 countries - 27 September 2006
Former magistrate Eva Joly says "corruption is a universal problem" - 26 September 2006
Law and justice: the case for parliamentary scrutiny - 25 September 2006
Parliaments to scale up involvement in HIV/AIDS - 20 September 2006
The IPU calls on Indonesian authorities not to execute three Christian Indonesian citizens - 20 September 2006
The IPU condemns the military coup d'état in Thailand - 20 September 2006
Parliamentarians call for resumption of WTO negotiations - 15 September 2006
IPU President Casini concludes three-nation Middle East tour in Lebanon; calls for renewed political dialogue to achieve peace and stability in the region - 11 September 2006
The IPU commemorates 11 September terrorist attacks by calling for dialogue as it inaugurates the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean - 11 September 2006
IPU President Casini on official visit to Iran meets President Ahmadinejad and calls for dialogue to resolve nuclear issue - 11 September 2006
IPU alarmed at the arrest and detention of the Speaker of the PLC - 8 August 2006
IPU President calls for an end to violence in Lebanon and opening of a humanitarian corridor - 21 July 2006
The IPU Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians examined public cases concerning 112 parliamentarians in 19 countries - 14 July 2006
President of Philippines Senate Franklin Drilon elected President of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians - 11 July 2006
IPU lauds voter turnout in Kuwait - 3 July 2006
IPU expresses concern at the detention of Members of the PLC - 2 July 2006
IPU-UNITAR Seminar on parliaments, sustainable development, water and desertification - 26 Juin 2006
IPU and EP call on WTO Members: "Concrete results are politically indispensable. There is no Plan B." - 23 Juin 2006
Parliamentarians meet during UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (New York, 2 Juin 2006
IPU and UNICEF call for immediate assistance to populations in the Horn of Africa - 12 May 2006
Parliamentarians in Nairobi urge all parties to ensure that food relief should not be used for political ends - 12 May 2006
Record number of allegations of violations of human rights of MPs examined by the IPU - 12 May 2006
Parliamentarians can put children at centre of AIDS agenda - 10 May 2006
"Legislators could make laws that protect the environment rather than do politics with resources", said Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai at the IPU Assembly - 9 May 2006
Need for urgent food relief in Africa was adopted as an emergency item at IPU Nairobi Assembly - 8 May 2006
IPU offers clear evidence that democratic change through parliament is possible - 8 May 2006
President Mwai Kibaki inaugurates the 114th IPU assembly in Nairobi - 7 May 2006
President of IPU Women Parliamentarians’ Meeting in Nairobi denounces rape and sexual violence during armed conflict, especially in Darfur - 7 May 2006
President Mwai Kibaki to open 114th Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in Nairobi - 26 April 2006
IPU appeal to save 20 million people in Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and the United Republic of Tanzania living under threat of starvation - 30 March 2006
A free and fair election is the very meaning of democracy - 24 March 2006
One out of five parliamentarians elected in 2005 is a woman - 27 February 2006
6 February, International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation: Parliamentarians raise awareness - 3 February 2006
The Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians welcomes the liberation of two Syrian former parliamentarians - 23 January 2006