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Parliaments have a key role to play in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by adopting solid legislative frameworks that duly take into account the interdisciplinary natu

The first global stocktake, concluded in 2023 at COP28, revealed significant gaps in progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, highlighting a substantial shortfall between current national commit

With every passing month, our world becomes more violent and dangerous.

The Indicators for Democratic Parliaments are a comprehensive self-assessment tool designed to help parliaments evaluate their capacity and practice against established d

Parliaments and Human Rights: A self-assessment toolkit was jointly prepared by OHCHR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

This brochure presents the highlights from the toolkit

In 2019, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) passed the following resolution calling on parliamentarians to include disaster risk reduction (DRR) in their strategies for implementing and achieving

This self-assessment toolkit, produced by the IPU and  the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), provides parliaments with the framework to evaluate their readiness to engage on the Sus

Drawing on IPU’s extensive experience, this toolkit should help parliaments evaluate how gender sensitive they are, assess their current practices and policies, identify possible areas for reform,

This self-assessment toolkit invites parliaments to evaluate their democratic performance against a set of criteria based on the core values set out in IPU’s ground-breaking study,