Copenhagen/Brussels. The Chairman of the European Parliament's delegation to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Jo Leinen, calls for a stronger role of elected representatives and parliaments in global governance. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Leinen ...
The United Nations Association of Germany (UNA-Germany) called on the German federal government and the German parliament, the Bundestag, to „develop its own proposals for establishing a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations.“ According to ...
Strengthening parliamentary democracy in times of globalization and the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) was the subject of a workshop held last week, on 25 November, in Kampala, Uganda. Around five Members ...
The Committee for a Democratic United Nations (KDUN), a non-governmental think tank based in Berlin, Germany, has criticised the "worrying intransparency" of the intergovernmental negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) whose sixth round was ...
The role of Members of Parliament in the efforts to combat desertification and to achieve food security was discussed at a Round Table which was held in parallel with the ninth session of the Conference ...
This year's conference of the Francophone European Association for Bahá’í Studies (Association francophone européenne des études bahá’íes, AFEEB) on 24 and 25 October 2009 in Luxembourg discussed the future world order and global governance.
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The progress of the international efforts for the establishment of a global parliamentary assembly was discussed at a meeting across the United Nations headquarters in New York. Around 60 participants from 19 countries, among them ...
Lawmakers from three world regions have joined in order to expand parliamentary activities for the establishment of an elected body at the United Nations. At an international conference call on Thursday they have formally set ...
More than 80 national and international opinion leaders and over 500 guests from all around the world participated in the second "World Culture Forum" convened in Dresden, Germany, to discuss the creation of "a culture ...
A study published today by the Committee for a Democratic U.N. draws the conclusion that there are realistic models for the establishment of a democratic world parliament. The background paper on "the composition of a ...
