Introducción El respeto por los derechos humanos es el fundamento esencial de las sociedades democráticas sólidas. Aun así, aunque se reconoce universalmente su importancia fundamental, los derechos...
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Parlements et droits humains - Outil d’auto-évaluation
Introduction Le respect des droits humains est un élément essentiel de toute société démocratique forte. Pourtant, si leur importance fondamentale est universellement reconnue, les droits humains...
Parliaments and Human Rights - A self-assessment toolkit [EN/AR]
IPU and UN Human Rights Office launch toolkit to encourage Parliaments to champion human rights GENEVA (11 October 2023) - The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the UN Human Rights Office have...
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol - Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 36
Foreword More than four decades after its adoption, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women remains an essential and ambitious guide for achieving gender...
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L'instabilité politique responsable du nombre record de parlementaires persécutés dans le monde
Les chiffres annuels publiés par l'UIP à la veille de la Journée des droits de l'homme révèlent que le nombre de parlementaires subissant des violations présumées de leurs droits de l'homme a atteint...
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Political instability accounts for record number of persecuted MPs worldwide
The IPU has recorded another all-time high number of parliamentarians suffering from alleged human rights violations according to its annual figures released on the eve of Human Rights Day. The data...
Violaciones de los derechos humanos de los parlamentarios en 2021 — Casos que examina el Comité de Derechos Humanos de los Parlamentarios de la UIP
El Comité de Derechos Humanos de los Parlamentarios de la UIP es el único mecanismo internacional de denuncia que ostenta el mandato específico de defender los derechos humanos de parlamentarios...
Violations des droits de l’homme des parlementaires en 2021 — Cas examinés par le Comité des droits de l’homme des parlementaires de l’UIP
Le Comité des droits de l’homme des parlementaires de l’UIP est le seul mécanisme international de plainte ayant pour mandat spécifique de défendre les droits fondamentaux des parlementaires...
Violations of the human rights of MPs in 2021 — Cases examined by the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians [EN/AR]
The IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians is the only international complaints mechanism with the specific mandate to defend the human rights of persecuted parliamentarians. Its work...
Gender-responsive law-making: Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 33
Build back equal: New handbook on gender-responsive legislation Lawmakers around the world have a new resource to help them address gender inequality with the publication of the new IPU and UN Women...
Le HCR et l’UIP se félicitent de la résolution de l’Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l’Europe en faveur des réfugiés
L’Union interparlementaire (UIP) et le HCR, l’Agence des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés, se félicitent de l’adoption d’une résolution et de la publication d’un rapport en soutien aux réfugiés par...
UNHCR and IPU welcome Council of Europe parliamentary resolution in support of refugees
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, welcome the adoption of a resolution and publication of a report in support of refugees by the...
A guide to international refugee protection and building state asylum systems: Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 27, 2017
Introduction As this Handbook goes to press, there are more refugees in the world than at any time since the end of the Second World War. The causes of contemporary displacement have become ever more...
IPU deeply concerned over human rights violations against Maldives lawmakers
The Inter-Parliamentary Union has expressed concern over human rights violation against opposition lawmakers in the Maldives. In a press statement Wednesday, the global organisation of national...
Global conference of MPs calls for immediate humanitarian access to the civilian population in Syria
The Inter-Parliamentary Union’s (IPU) 135th Assembly urged all relevant parties to bring an end to this war. They also called today for the immediate, unimpeded and permanent humanitarian and medical...
MPs to agree on plan to tackle statelessness
MPs from 40 national parliaments have agreed to push for more concerted efforts to address statelessness at the end of a global conference in South Africa. A problem which has a devastating impact on...
Conference to focus on answers to statelessness
A conference in South Africa will explore how parliaments can combat statelessness, which deprives many people of basic rights but which can be solved with relatively simple changes to laws and...
Migration, human rights and governance: Handbook for Parliamentarians N° 24
Crucial tool for MPs to tackle migration issues A new Handbook for Parliamentarians giving vital guidance to MPs and parliaments on migration has been published by IPU and partners, the International...
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Micronesia funding for migration crisis an expression of solidarity
Micronesia’s parliament has pledged US$100,000 to IPU towards a response to the global migration crisis that has seen the arrival of more than 680,000 people in Europe by sea alone this year and the...
Protection of refugees must be stepped up in wake of unprecedented crisis
Geneva, 20 October 2015 Countries hosting refugees must comply with the principles of international refugee and humanitarian laws to ensure their protection in the wake of the worst refugee crisis...