- Our impact
The IPU facilitates parliamentary diplomacy and empowers parliaments and parliamentarians to promote peace, democracy and sustainable development around the world.We help parliaments to become greener and to implement the Paris agreement.We support democracy by strengthening parliamentsWe work to increase women’s representation in parliament and empower women MPs.We defend the human rights of parliamentarians and help them uphold the rights of all.We help parliaments fight terrorism, cyber warfare and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.We encourage youth participation in parliaments and empower young MPs.We support parliaments in implementing the SDGs with a particular focus on health and climate change.We bring a parliamentary dimension to United Nations processes to ensure international commitments become national realities. - Parliaments
Nearly every country in the world has some form of parliament. Parliamentary systems fall into two categories: bicameral and unicameral. Out of 190 parliaments in the world, 79 are bicameral (158 chambers) and 111 are unicameral, making a total of 269 chambers of parliament with some 44,000 members of parliament. IPU membership is made up of 178 national parliaments. DiscoverFind a national parliament
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We help strengthen parliaments to make them more representative and effective.. - Knowledge
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Our library of essential resources for parliamentsGlobal data for and about national parliamentsLatest data and reports about women in politicsRecent innovations in the way parliaments workThe latest climate change legislation and policies from the London School of Economics' database
IPU Assemblies
This is a list of Statutory Assemblies and Conferences held since 1889. For a list of outcomes of Assemblies until the 137th Assembly, go to the archive page. For outcomes from the 138th Assembly onwards, click on the link to the Assembly.
| 1st Paris (France) 1889 | 2nd London (United Kingdom) 1890 |
| 3rd Rome (Italy) 1891 | 4th Bern (Switzerland) 1892 |
| 5th The Hague (Netherlands) 1894 | 6th Brussels (Belgium) 1895 |
| 7th Budapest (Hungary) 1896 | 8th Brussels (Belgium) 1897 |
| 9th Christiania (Norway) 1899 | 10th Paris (France) 1900 |
| 11th Vienna (Austria) 1903 | 12th Saint-Louis (USA) 1904 |
| 13th Brussels (Belgium) 1905 | 14th London (United Kingdom) 1906 |
| 15th Berlin (Germany) 1908 | 16th Brussels (Belgium) 1910 |
| 17th Geneva (Switzerland) 1912 | 18th The Hague (Netherlands) 1913 |
| 19th Stockholm (Sweden) 1921 | 20th Vienna (Austria) 1922 |
| 21st Copenhagen (Denmark) 1923 | 22nd Bern (Switzerland) 1924 |
| 23rd Washington (USA) and Ottawa (Canada) 1925 | 24th Paris (France) 1927 |
| 25th Berlin (Germany) 1928 | 26th London (United Kingdom) 1930 |
| 27th Bucharest (Romania) 1931 | 28th Geneva (Switzerland) 1932 |
| 29th Madrid (Spain) 1933 | 30th Istanbul (Turkey) 1934 |
| 31st Brussels (Belgium) 1935 | 32nd Budapest (Hungary) 1936 |
| 33rd Paris (France) 1937 | 34th The Hague (Netherlands) 1938 |
| 35th Oslo (Norway) 1939 | 36th Cairo (Egypt) 1947 |
| 37th Rome (Italy) 1948 | 38th Stockholm (Sweden) 1949 |
| 39th Dublin (Ireland) 1950 | 40th Istanbul (Turkey) 1951 |
| 41st Bern (Switzerland) 1952 | 42nd Washington (USA) 1953 |
| 43rd Vienna (Austria) 1954 | 44th Helsinki (Finland) 1955 |
| 45th Bangkok (Thailand) 1956 | 46th London (United Kingdom) 1957 |
| 47th Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 1958 | 48th Warsaw (Poland) 1959 |
| 49th Tokyo (Japan) 1960 | 50th Brussels (Belgium) 1961 |
| 51st Brasilia (Brazil) 1962 | 52nd Belgrade (Yugoslavia) 1963 |
| 53rd Copenhagen (Denmark) 1964 | 54th Ottawa (Canada) 1965 |
| 55th Teheran (Iran) 1966 | 56th Lima (Peru) 1968 |
| 57th New Delhi (India) 1969 | 58th The Hague (Netherlands) 1970 |
| 59th Paris (France) 1971 | 60th Rome (Italy) 1972 |
| 61st Tokyo (Japan) 1974 | 62nd London (United Kingdom) 1975 |
| 63rd Madrid (Spain) 1976 | 64th Sofia (Bulgaria) 1977 |
| 65th Bonn (FRG) 1978 | 66th Caracas (Venezuela) 1979 |
| 67th Berlin (GDR) 1980 | 68th Havana (Cuba) 1981 |
| 69th Rome (Italy) 1982 | 70th Seoul (Republic of Korea) 1983 |
| 71st Geneva (Switzerland) 1984 | 72nd Geneva (Switzerland) 1984 |
| 73rd Lomé (Togo) 1985 | 74th Ottawa (Canada) 1985 |
| 75th Mexico City (Mexico) 1986 | 76th Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1986 |
| 77th Managua (Nicaragua)1987 | 78th Bangkok (Thailand) 1987 |
| 79th Guatemala City (Guatemala) 1988 | 80th Sofia (Bulgaria) 1988 |
| 81st Budapest (Hungary) 1989 | 82nd London (United Kingdom) 1989 |
| 83rd Nicosia (Cyprus) 1990 | 84th Punta del Este (Uruguay) 1990 |
| 85th Pyongyang (D.P.R. Korea) 1991 | 86th Santiago (Chile) 1991 |
| 87th Yaoundé (Cameroon) 1992 | 88th Stockholm (Sweden) 1992 |
| 89th New Delhi (India) 1993 | 90th Canberra (Australia) 1993 |
| 91st Paris (France) 1994 | 92nd Copenhagen (Denmark) 1994 |
| 93rd Madrid (Spain) 1995 | 94th Bucharest (Romania) 1995 |
| 95th Istanbul (Turkey) 1996 | 96th Beijing (China) 1996 |
| 97th Seoul (Republic of Korea) 1997 | 98th Cairo (Egypt) 1997 |
| 99th Windhoek (Namibia) 1998 | 100th Moscow (Russian Federation) 1998 |
| 101st Brussels (Belgium) 1999 | 102nd Berlin (Germany) 1999 |
| 103rd Amman (Jordan) 2000 | 104th Jakarta (Indonesia) 2000 |
| 105th Havana (Cuba) 2001 | 106th Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) 2001 |
| 107th Marrakech (Morocco) 2002 | 108th Santiago (Chile) 2003 |
| 109th Geneva (Switzerland) 2003 | 110th Mexico City (Mexico) 2004 |
| 111th Geneva (Switzerland) 2004 | 112th Manila (Philippines) 2005 |
| 113th Geneva (Switzerland) 2005 | 114th Nairobi (Kenya) 2006 |
| 115th Geneva (Switzerland) 2006 | 116th Nusa Dua, Bali (Indonesia) 2007 |
| 117th Geneva (Switzerland) 2007 | 118th Cape Town (South Africa) 2008 |
| 119th Geneva (Switzerland) 2008 | 120th Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 2009 |
| 121st Geneva (Switzerland) 2009 | 122nd Bangkok (Thailand) 2010 |
| 123rd Geneva (Switzerland) 2010 | 124th Panama City (Panama) 2011 |
| 125th Bern (Switzerland) 2011 | 126th Kampala (Uganda) 2012 |
| 127th Quebec City (Canada) 2012 | 128th Quito (Ecuador) 2013 |
| 129th Geneva (Switzerland) 2013 | 130th Geneva (Switzerland) 2014 |
| 131st Geneva (Switzerland) 2014 | 132nd Hanoi (Viet Nam) 2015 |
| 133rd Geneva (Switzerland) 2015 | 134th Lusaka (Zambia) 2016 |
| 135th Geneva (Switzerland) 2016 | 136th Dhaka (Bangladesh) 2017 |
| 137th St. Petersburg (Russia) 2017 | 138th Geneva (Switzerland) 2018 |
| 139th Geneva (Switzerland) 2018 | 140th Doha (Qatar) 2019 |
| 141st Belgrade (Serbia) 2019 | Governing Council (Extraordinary), Geneva (Switzerland) 2020 |
| 142nd Geneva (Switzerland) 2021 | 143rd Madrid (Spain) 2021 |
| 144th Nusa Dua (Indonesia) 2022 | 145th Kigali (Rwanda) 2022 |
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