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World's citizens should elect global parliament, argued in a book released in Delhi

16. May 2012

Union Minister Shri Deshmukh presents book, supports establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly — In the era of globalization the world’s citizens should be given more responsibility through a directly elected global parliament. This suggestion to improve ...

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Manifesto calls for replacement of G8/G20 with democratic UN Parliamentary Assembly

11. May 2012

International assembly releases manifesto ahead of worldwide mass protests — As hundreds of thousands of people around the world prepared to take to the streets this weekend as part of a global call for change, an international ...

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Debate on global parliament at Earth System Governance conference

20. April 2012

The creation of a global parliament was a hotly debated issue at an expert panel that occurred on Thursday as a side event of the Lund Earth System Governance conference in Sweden. While there was ...

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World Congress of Green parties calls for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

2. April 2012

The third international gathering of Green parties worldwide, the Global Greens Congress, closed yesterday in Dakar, Senegal, with the adoption of various resolutions, one of which dealt with the question of global democracy. "Greens recognize ...

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ACTA confirms "need of an elected global parliament", says Committee

4. February 2012

Treaty could become "dangerous precedent for undemocratic global rule-making" — The Committee for a Democratic United Nations (KDUN), a non-governmental think tank based in Berlin, Germany, says that the "shockingly intransparent and undemocratic" international negotiations for an ...

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Ombudsperson for Future Generations at the UN would be “step towards global democracy”

3. January 2012

The World Future Council calls on the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development that will take place in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro to mark the 20th anniversary of the UN’s Earth Summit in ...

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Union minister and prominent lawmakers in India support call for a UN Parliamentary Assembly

9. December 2011

India should approve of proposal, says former foreign minister — Nearly forty sitting members of parliament from India cutting across party lines, around half of them each from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, support an appeal ...

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Meeting in The Hague commemorates pioneer of a UN Parliamentary Assembly

9. December 2011

Discussion on Erskine Childers’ recommendations for renewing and democratizing the UN at 15th anniversary of his death — The renewing and democratizing of the UN was the subject of an event held on Tuesday in The Hague ...

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Lawmakers of regional community Mercosur support creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly

3. December 2011

At a session held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on Friday, the Parliament of the South American community Mercosur (Parlasur) declared its endorsement of "the creation of a Parliamentary Assembly within the United Nations, with the goal ...

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Collected works on a global parliamentary assembly published in one volume

1. December 2011

The case for the creation of a global parliamentary assembly as a means to democratize global governance is the core theme of a new volume of collected works by Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss. In ...

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