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Ireland’s president-elect is supporter of a UN Parliamentary Assembly

30. October 2011

On Saturday it was officially announced that Michael D. Higgins has won the presidential elections in Ireland. The peace activist, sociologist and former minister of culture with the Irish Labour Party will succeed Mary McAleese ...

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Amid international protests, intellectuals and activists issue manifesto for global democracy

14. October 2011

Intellectuals Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano and Michael Hardt as well as mass-protest organizers and activists have issued a manifesto that includes a strong call for global democracy and, in particular, democratic ...

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Open letter: German government urged to support creation of a UN Parliamentary Assembly

20. September 2011

Alliance of German organizations and personalities backs proposal of the European Parliament On the day before the start of the general debate at the UN General Assembly in New York an appeal was made to German ...

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Majority leader in Senegal welcomes initiative for a UN Parliamentary Assembly

14. September 2011

The chairman of the Democratic caucus in the Parliament of Senegal, Doudou Wade, has welcomed the proposal for establishing a UN Parliamentary Assembly at a meeting on Tuesday, 13 September 2011, with the Senegalese representative ...

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Australia should support efforts for a global parliament: Green party leader

30. June 2011

In a speech at the National Press Club on Wednesday, the leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Bob Brown, voiced support for the creation of a global parliament. As the Greens control the balance of ...

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Call on EU Council to support UN Parliamentary Assembly adopted

8. June 2011

At a plenary session today, the European Parliament has passed recommendations to the Council of the European Union regarding the Council’s policy at the upcoming 66th United Nations General Assembly. The recommendations that will be ...

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European Parliament urges EU Council to put UN Parliamentary Assembly on UN's agenda

10. May 2011

The European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) has passed recommendations to the Council of the European Union on Monday evening that include the request to the Council to advocate at the upcoming session of ...

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Green youth organizations in Europe endorse call for elected UN assembly

8. May 2011

The Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG), an umbrella organization of 38 environmental and Green political groups from across Europe, supports the international call for the establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations ...

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Creation of a world parliament suggested at World Social Forum

10. February 2011

The establishment of a world parliament elected by the world’s population was proposed at an event at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal. “A democratic and representative world parliament would be an institution with ...

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International Parliamentary Institutions “help to overcome democracy deficits”

22. December 2010

A new study published by the Committee for a Democratic U.N. (KDUN), a think tank based in Berlin, concludes that international parliamentary institutions such as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe or the ...

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