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The IPU's annual publication looks at progress and setbacks of the representation of women in parliament. The report is based on data from the 49 countries that held parliamentary polls for 62 chambers in 2025 as well as the overall picture. 

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Request for proposals - Graphic designer and video producer (WYDE | Women’s Leadership Programme)

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Background The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the global organization of national parliaments. It was founded in 1889 as the first multilateral political organization in the world, encouraging cooperation and dialogue between all nations. Today, the IPU comprises 183 national Member
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Junior Consultancy, Parliamentary Developments

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Background The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the global organization of national parliaments. It was founded in 1889 as the first multilateral organization in the world, encouraging cooperation and dialogue between all nations. Building effective and empowered parliaments is one of
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Junior Consultancy, Parline database on national parliaments

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Background The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is the global organization of national parliaments. and has published various comparative data on all national parliaments in the world via the Parline database since 1996. In April 2024, the IPU launched a redeveloped version
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Voices and videos
Martin Chungong
20/02/2026

AI is a question of power. Parliaments must be part of the answer.

Opinion piece by Martin Chungong, IPU Secretary General The India AI Impact Summit, held this week in New Delhi, is the first global summit on artificial intelligence (AI) of this scale hosted in the Global South. This signals that the
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Voices and videos
Nusrat Ghani
12/02/2026

A Conversation with... Nusrat Ghani, United Kingdom

As part of the IPU series 'A conversation with...', we interview parliamentarians and experts from all over the world to find out who they represent and what motivates them. In this edition, we speak to Nusrat Ghani, Deputy Speaker of
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Press releases
Public hostility
11/02/2026

New IPU report: Lawmakers increasingly intimidated by the public

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) released today a new global report which reveals that members of parliament (MPs) are facing a worrying rise in intimidation and harassment from the public. When the public turns hostile: Political violence against parliamentarians draws on
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The 15th Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament (15SWSP) was held on 28 July 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, on the theme Leading for inclusive and lasting peace. Thirty of the world’s leading women legislators took part in the Summit. 
The outcomes of the deliberations of the 15SWSP resulted in a final declaration which contributed to the Conference’s proceedings and fed into the proceedings of the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament (6WCSP) thus making gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls a priority on the agenda of all parliaments.

 

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