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Opening of the 148th IPU Assembly, 24 March 2024
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Closing remarks by the IPU President, 27 March 2024
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Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations, 8 February 2024
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High Level Segment remarks - COP 28, 9 December 2023
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United Arab Emirates
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Climate change
Opening remarks at the Parliamentary Meeting at COP28, 6 December 2023
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Webinar for African Parliaments on “Preventing and Responding to Violence against Women in Parliaments, 22 November 2023
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9th MIKTA Speakers’ Consultation Strengthening Multilateralism, Addressing Intergenerational Challenges, 20 November 2023
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News in brief
29/03/2022
On 27 March, IPU President, Duarte Pacheco addressed the Ninth Plenary Session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace, hosted by the Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates. With the backdrop of war in Ukraine, the President
News in brief
23/03/2021
IPU President, Mr. Duarte Pacheco and IPU Secretary General, Mr. Martin Chungong met today a group of Myanmar parliamentarians elected in the general election of November 2020 but prevented from taking their seats in the new parliament following the military
News in brief
22/03/2021
In one of his first trips abroad as IPU President, Duarte Pacheco visited India in the week of 15 March 2021. During the visit, he met with the leaders of both houses of Parliament, the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Voices
08/03/2021
The IPU has been promoting gender equality for decades ever since the first woman parliamentarian took the floor at an IPU parliamentary event in 1922. On 8 March, 2021, International Women's Day, listen to IPU President, Mr. Duarte Pacheco, speak
Statements
08/03/2021
View the monthly ranking of women in national parliaments Our shared commitments Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Member States have recognized the equal right of women and men to participate in public
Voices
02/02/2021
On 6 January 2021, the world watched in horror as a mob waged an outrageous assault on the US Capitol building. Congress was in session, performing the usually calm and orderly ritual of confirming the election results and certifying the
Voices
30/12/2020
2020 has been a year unlike any other. The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the world into turmoil, with the resulting lockdowns, quarantines and border closures bringing economies to a standstill. It has been endless; as societies sacrifice freedoms to subdue
Voices
09/12/2020
Mr Duarte Pacheco, a Portuguese Member of Parliament since 1991, was elected to the IPU Presidency in an historic virtual vote in November, winning 56 per cent of the votes in the first round. In his first video interview for
Voices
26/11/2020
Discover the new IPU President Duarte Pacheco’s campaign speech during the virtual election for the presidency on 1 November 2020.
Press releases
02/11/2020
Mr. Duarte Pacheco has been elected as the 30th President of the IPU after an unprecedented online election during an extraordinary virtual session of the IPU’s Governing Council, its main decision-making body made up of parliamentarians from around the world
This report spans the activities of IPU President, Gabriela Cuevas Barron, from 2017-2020.
This report outlines the President’s activities from October 2019 to April 2020.
Statements
06/08/2020
On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6 and 9 August), the IPU renews its calls for parliamentary action to ban the 14,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. In a letter co-signed with the