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Handbooks

This practical series provides detailed information on the issues, legal instruments, policy responses and concrete actions required for parliamentarians to be able to address global challenges to development and humanitarian action.

This practical series provides detailed information on the issues, legal instruments, policy responses and concrete actions required for parliamentarians to be able to address global challenges to development and humanitarian action.

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The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol: Handbook for Parliamentarians

In 2003, the IPU and the United Nations published

The path towards universal health coverage

Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.

Saving Lives and Mobilizing Revenue: A parliamentary action guide to health taxes

An estimated 41 million people worldwide died of preventable noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in 2019 which include diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Often, these di

Guidelines for Parliamentary Libraries (3rd edition)

Information is at the core of the work of parliaments.

Strengthening health security preparedness: The International Health Regulations (2005)

This handbook describes the role of parliaments in strengthening emergency preparedness and health security.

Gender-responsive law-making

Equality in law is crucial to gender equality, as women and girls look to the laws of their State to protect, fulfil and enforce their rights.

Handbook for parliamentarians on nutrition and food systems

One in three people globally suffers from at least one form of malnutrition, and the economic loss attributable to bad nutrition is estimated at US$ 3.5 trillion per year.

Road map for action on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health

The right to health is a basic human right. Beyond that, having access to high-quality health services allows people to realize all their other rights.

Eliminating Forced Labour: Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 30

This handbook, co-published with the International Labour Organization (ILO), is aimed to help parliamentarians address the issue of the 25 million people globally who are subject to forc

Good practices in nationality laws for the prevention and reduction of statelessness

This handbook, jointly published with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the IPU, offers practical examples of domestic legal provisions that allow States to accomplish the fol

Freedom of expression for parliaments and their members: Importance and scope of protection

The overall aim of this handbook is to help parliamentarians better understand international standards on freedom of expression. There are two main thrusts.

A Guide to international refugee protection and building state asylum systems

The Handbook for Parliamentarians No.

Human Rights

The Human Rights Handbook for Parliamentarians is based on the conviction that parliaments and their members can play a key role in delivering concretely on human rights.

International Humanitarian Law

This Handbook is the most recent outcome of many fruitful years of cooperation and partnership between the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the International Committee of the Red Cross. It is spe

Nationality and Statelessness

There are an estimated 10 million people in the world who are not recognized as a national of any country, i.e. stateless. Every year, tens of thousands of children are born stateless.

Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Although indigenous peoples make up five per cent of the global population, they account for one third of the one billion extremely poor rural people.

Migration, human rights and governance

International migration today is motivated by a range of economic, political and social factors.

Handbook on Child Participation in Parliament

This handbook, a collaborative effort of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF, addresses some of the key ways in which parliamentarians can guarantee that children's voices, concerns and intere

Handbook: Information and communication technologies in parliamentary libraries

The purpose of this Handbook is to provide in a concise manner an overview of the ICT software, systems and services that can be adopted by parliamentary libraries, a template for their implementat

Handbook: Supporting Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

This Handbook, produced jointly by IPU and PNND, is intended to assist parliaments and MPs to take bold action in implementing the 2009 ground-breaking IPU Resolution on advancing nuclear disarmame