In May 2025, Secretary General Martin Chungong embarked on official visits to Guyana and Cuba. These visits were part of a strategic initiative to deepen understanding and strengthen engagement with parliaments in Latin America and the Caribbean, while also encouraging their active involvement in IPU initiatives. Guyana In Guyana, the Secretary General engaged in a […]
At the 150th IPU Assembly in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the IPU welcomed the National Assembly of Belize as its 182nd Member Parliament, further expanding the Organization’s global reach and bringing it one step closer to universal membership. The decision by the National Assembly to join the IPU was confirmed by a resolution that was passed unanimously […]
IPU Secretary General Martin Chungong visited Colombia and Costa Rica in March 2025 as part of broader efforts to better understand and engage with Latin American Member Parliaments, and to encourage their active participation in the work of the IPU. Colombia In Colombia, Mr. Chungong met key parliamentary figures, including Mr. Efraín Cepeda (President of […]
The IPU concluded its Global Conference of Women Parliamentarians, held on 14 and 15 March 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico, emphasizing the urgent need for gender parity in parliaments worldwide. The Conference, attended by some 380 parliamentarians from 56 countries, as well as representatives from the Government of Mexico, international organizations and civil society, highlighted successful […]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is pleased to announce the Global Conference of Women Parliamentarians From Mexico to the World: Let’s mobilize for gender parity! which will be held in Mexico City from 13 to 16 March 2025. The Conference is being jointly organized by the IPU and the Senate of Mexico. The Conference aims to identify successful […]
In the lead-up to Human Rights Day, the IPU continue to express grave concerns over the ever growing number of human rights violations against parliamentarians worldwide. The number of cases brought before the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians has more than tripled in the last decade, from 311 in 2014 to 956 […]
The Parliament of Brazil, in collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), hosted the 10th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit from 7-8 November 2024 in Brasilia, Brazil. This high-level forum brought together the heads of parliament from the world’s largest economies to address critical global issues. The P20 is a multilateral platform for parliamentary diplomacy which provides a parliamentary […]
As the 149th IPU Assembly concluded this week, the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians reported on its latest caseload detailing severe human rights violations faced by hundreds of MPs worldwide. The most common violations include attacks on freedom of expression, suspension or loss of parliamentary mandate, threats, intimidation, torture, arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance. […]
At the 149th IPU Assembly in Geneva, the IPU welcomed back the Parliament of Jamaica as its 181st Member Parliament, bringing the Organization one step closer to universal membership. Jamaica had previously been a member of the IPU from 1983 to 1996. President of the Senate, Mr. Thomas Tavares-Finson, said: “We are convinced that renewing our […]
From 27 – 31 May 2024, a BGIPU delegation of UK Members of Parliament visited Colombia to strengthen bilateral Parliamentary links. The delegation included Tim Loughton MP, Baroness Blower, Patrick Grady MP and Baroness Northover, and was supported by Holly Sloan from the BGIPU Secretariat. The visit started days after the General Election was called, […]
