WWW.PGACTION.ORG ANNUAL REPORT 2016 PGA ANNUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS REPORT 2016 1. PGA SECRETARY GENERAL’S MESSAGE 02 PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR GLOBAL ACTION 2. ABOUT PGA 03 3. OVERVIEW OF PGA MEMBERSHIP 04 4. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE & INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL 09 5. PGA SECRETARIAT 10 6. UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE 11 7. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMME 12 8. PEACE AND DEMOCRACY PROGRAMME 17 9. GENDER, EQUALITY AND POPULATION PROGRAMME 20 10. 2016 IN REVIEW 23 11. 2016 PARTNERS AND DONORS 24 PGA SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE Dear PGA Friends, The year 2016 was defined by numerous achievements by Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), the largest non-governmental2016 organization of individual legislators committed to human rights and the Rule of Law, democracy, human security, non-discrimination and gender equality, with approximately 1400 members in 143 Parliaments around the world. We are delighted to share with you our efforts towards a more equitable, just and peaceful world, with growth and progress in each of our three programmes: Peace and Democracy, International Law and Human Rights, and Gender, Equality and Population. PGA successfully completed year one of our 2016- 18 strategic plan and gained 223 new PGA member-parliamentarians representing all regions of the world. In December, PGA convened the largest political gathering of Legislators on the fight against impunity, the 2016 PGA Annual Forum and 9th Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the International Criminal Court & the Rule of Law (CAP-ICC) in Dakar, Senegal. The meeting occurred at an opportune time as the ICC is facing new threats as some African countries are moving to withdraw from the Court and provided a platform for the ICC Prosecutor and President and Parliamentarians from Africa and other regions of the world to address concerns and reaffirm political support for the Rome Statute system. The Consultative Assembly ended with the consideration and adoption of the Dakar Plan of Action on the prevention of Mass Atrocities, Strengthening the Rule of Law and Support for the International Criminal Court (English | Français | Español | Arabic), which contains a blueprint of strategies and initiatives that Legislators committed to take to generate support for, and compliance with, the ICC in order to seek justice for victims and fight impunity for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. Thank you to all of our PGA friends for your continued encouragement and support of the PGA mission to contribute to the creation of a rules-based international order for a more equitable, safe and democratic world. With your help, we achieved good results across all of our campaigns to end injustice and oppression around the world. I invite you now to continue learning about our significant achievements in the following 2016 Annual Report. On behalf of PGA, I am grateful to our invaluable network of parliamentarians and our steadfast partners and look forward to continued success in 2017. Sincerely, David Donat Cattin (Ph.D., Law) Secretary-General, Parliamentarians for Global Action PGA’S ABOUT PGA HISTORY PGA was established in 1978 in Washington DC, U.S.A., by concerned parliamentarians from around the world, to take joint action on global problems, which could not be solved by any one government or parliament. OUR MISSION OUR INTERNTIONAL LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS PGA is a leading international Non- Governmental Organization, in general Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), VISION consultative status with the United Nations, a non-profit, non-partisan international To contribute to the creation with a track-record in generating consensus network of committed legislators, informs among lawmakers on international treaties and of a rules-based international PEACE & DEMOCRACY and mobilizes parliamentarians in all standards and their domestic implementation. order for a more equitable, safe regions of the world to advocate for human PGA promoted the negotiation, adoption and and democratic world. rights and the rule of law, democracy, ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the human security, non-discrimination, and GENDER, EQUALITY & Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court gender equality. POPULATION (ICC) and the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). 3 OVERVIEW OF PGA MEMBERSHIP 2016 4 OVERVIEW OF PGA MEMBERSHIP (AS OF DEC. 2016) PGA membership is available to sitting members In order for a group or individual to qualify for NUMBER OF MEMBERS: of Parliament committed to the vision and values PGA membership, the country’s Parliament must 1,394 of PGA. adhere to all of the following criteria: Members are invited to take action to advance • the members must be from a freely elected TOTAL NUMBER OF PARLIAMENTS: our Campaigns, participate in regional and parliament 143 international events and have access to the skills and technical experience of Secretariat staff. • the election should be open to more than one party, or to those who have no party NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS: The Secretariat provides Members with 130 informational tools and resources on PGA’s • the Parliament must evidence an actual ability to campaigns, which fall into three programme areas: engage in free debate REGIONAL PARLIAMENTS: International Law and Human Rights; 5 Peace and Democracy; OBSERVER STATUS PARLIAMENTS: 8 and Gender, Equality and Population. PGA GAINED 223 NEW MEMBERS IN 2016. THE FIVE REGIONAL PARLIAMENTS ARE: ECOWAS PARLIAMENT, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, PARLACEN, PARLATINO, PAN-AFRICAN PARLIAMENT THE EIGHT OBSERVER STATUS PARLIAMENTS ARE: ARUBA, CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, COOK ISLANDS, CURACAO, NIUE, PALESTINE, SUDAN, QATAR MALE FEMALE 949 445 5 +6 +5 REGIONAL BREAKDOWN REGIONAL OBSERVER OF CURRENT PARLIAMENTS COUNTRIES MEMBERSHIP 22 17 +8 EUROPE & CIS -4 205 MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA +13 81 ASIA +1 THE PACIFIC AMERICAS AFRICA 182 52 323 +64 513 NEW PARLIAMENTS WITH PGA MEMBERS 2016 +43 1. Bahrain 2. Fiji 3. Guinea Bissau 4. Guyana 5. Malawi 6. Mexico 7. Papua New Guinea 8. São Tomé and Príncipe 9. Samoa 10. Serbia 11. Venezuela 6 PGA PRESENCE WORLDWIDE (AS OF JANUARY 2017) AFRICA (513) AMERICAS (323) 1. Angola 2 26. Niger 3 1. Argentina 37 26. United States 11 2. Benin 3 27. Nigeria 32 2. Antigua & Barbuda 1 27. Uruguay* 22 3. Botswana 2 28. São Tomé and Príncipe 2 3. Barbados 2 28. Venezuela 3 4. Burkina Faso 15 29. Senegal 27 4. Belize 12 5. Cameroon 4 30. Sierra Leone 45 5. Bolivia 8 6. Cape Verde 24 31. South Africa 6 6. Brazil* 12 7. Central African Republic 10 32. South Sudan 3 7. Canada 10 8. Chad 8 33. Swaziland 1 8. Chile 15 9. Comoros 3 34. Tanzania 14 9. Colombia* 10 10 Cote d’Ivoire 19 35. Togo 8 10 Costa Rica* 9 11. DR Congo 76 36. Uganda 33 11. Dominican Republic* 49 12. Gabon 3 37. Zambia 1 12. Ecuador 6 13. Ghana 42 38. Zimbabwe 27 13. El Salvador* 39 14. Guinea 3 14. Guatemala 4 15. Guinea Bissau 3 15. Guyana 2 16. Guyana 2 16. Haiti 5 17. Kenya 18 17. Honduras 9 18. Liberia 8 18. Jamaica 2 19. Madagascar 2 19. Mexico 1 20. Malawi 5 20. Nicaragua 1 21. Mali 7 21. Panama 4 22. Mauritania* 17 22. Paraguay 14 23. Mauritius 1 23. Peru 6 24. Mozambique 28 24. Suriname* 12 25. Namibia 6 25. Trinidad & Tobago 17 CIS (36) EUROPE (169) MEMED (80) THE PACIFIC (52) 1. Armenia 2 1. Albania* 14 1. Algeria 2 1. Australia* 9 2. Azerbaijan 2 2. Austria 4 2. Iraq 20 2. Fiji 18 3. Kyrgyzstan 2 3. Belgium 5 3. Jordan 7 3. Kiribati 1 4. Ukraine 30 4. Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 4. Lebanon 1 4. Micronesia (Federated States of) 1 5. Denmark* 12 5. Morocco* 32 5. New Zealand* 11 6. Finland 4 6. Oman 5 6. Papua New Guinea 1 7. France 3 7. Tunisia 5 7. Samoa 2 8. Georgia 2 8. Turkey 2 8. Solomon Islands 1 9. Germany 3 9. Yemen 6 9. Tonga 4 10 Greece 2 10. Tuvalu 2 11. Hungary 2 11. Vanuatu 2 12. Iceland 1 13. Ireland* 12 14. Italy* 14 15. Lithuania 1 16. Malta 5 17. Netherlands 12 18. Norway 7 19. Poland 2 20. Portugal 5 21. Romania 4 22. Serbia 1 23. Slovenia 2 24. Spain 1 25. Sweden 22 26. Switzerland 3 27. United Kingdom 25 8 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dip. Margarita Stolbizer Ms. Petra Bayr, MP Sen. Alain Destexhe Ms. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, MP Mr. Kula Segaran, MP Mr. Su’a William Sio, MP Argentina Austria Belgium Ghana Malaysia New Zealand President of PGA Treasurer Chair, International Council Dip. Ronny Monge Salas Dip. Victor Orlando Bisonó Ms. Barbara Lochbihler, MEP Mr. Syed Naveed Qamar, MP Ms. Margareta Cederfelt, MP Dip. Bertha Sanseverino Costa Rica Dominican Republic Germany Pakistan Sweden Uruguay European Parliament 9 PGA SECRETARIAT PGA HEADQUARTERS PGA OFFICE IN NEW YORK IN THE HAGUE Dr. David Donat Cattin Ms. Romina Morello Secretary-General Legal Advisor [email protected] Officer-in-Charge, The Hague International Law and Human Rights Programme Ms. Jennifer McCarthy [email protected] Deputy Secretary-General [email protected] Ms. Marion Chahuneau Programme Officer Mr. Peter Barcroft International Law and Human Rights Programme Director, Peace and Democracy Programme [email protected] [email protected] Ms. Frederika Schweighoferova Mr. Michael Agbeko Programme Associate Director of Administration International Law and Human Rights Programme [email protected] [email protected] Ms. Mónica Adame Director, Gender Equality and Population Programme [email protected] Ms. Leyla Nikjou CONSULTANT IN AFRICA Specialist on Rule of Law and UN Strengthening Senior Programme Officer International Law and Human Rights [email protected] Mr. Eloi Urwodhi Consultant (Kinshasa) Mr. Brian Kett International Law and Human Rights Programme Communications and Membership Officer [email protected] [email protected] Ms.