March 28, 2015 - April 1, 2015
Government Event
This Assembly is set to focus on concrete ways that Parliaments can implement the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), due to be adopted later this year. It will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians and hold a meeting of the IPU’s Forum of Young Parliamentarians to examine steps to facilitate dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian MPs.
More than 600 MPs from 113 countries are registered so far to attend the 132nd IPU Assembly in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Assembly will take place from 28 March to 1 April and bring together Parliamentarians from around the world to examine international problems and make recommendations for action.
This Assembly is set to focus on concrete ways that Parliaments can implement the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), due to be adopted later this year. It will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians and hold a meeting of the IPU’s Forum of Young Parliamentarians to examine steps to facilitate dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian MPs.
The All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) is supporting the British Group of the IPU (BGIPU) by providing briefings on the countries the BGIPU delegation hopes to have bilateral meetings with at the Assembly. These countries include Afghanistan, Malaysia, Iraq, Turkey, Myanmar and Ukraine, amongst others. The PHRG also encourages the BGIPU delegation to raise relevant cases involving human rights abuses of MPs, which have been brought before the IPU’s Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians, to facilitate a resolution of those cases.
The PHRG will continue to support the BGIPU in its work to champion democracy and human rights through its Parliamentary diplomacy.
