TABLE OF CONTENTS Page(s) Meetings and other activities 133rd Assembly 1. Opening of the Assembly .................................................................................................... 4 2. Participation ......................................................................................................................... 4 3. Choice of an emergency item .............................................................................................. 5 4. Debates and decisions of the Assembly and its Standing Committees .............................. 6 5. Concluding sitting ................................................................................................................ 12 197th session of the Governing Council 1. Membership and Permanent Observers of the IPU ............................................................ 12 2. Financial situation of the IPU ............................................................................................... 13 3. Programme and budget for 2016 ........................................................................................ 13 4. Cooperation with the United Nations system ...................................................................... 13 5. Implementation of the IPU Strategy for 2012-2017 ............................................................. 14 6. Recent specialized meetings ............................................................................................... 15 7. Reports of plenary bodies and specialized committees ...................................................... 15 8. Future inter-parliamentary meetings ................................................................................... 16 272nd session of the Executive Committee 1. Proceedings and decisions .................................................................................................. 16 2. Sub-Committee on Finance ................................................................................................. 18 Meeting and Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians ...................................... 18 Subsidiary bodies of the Governing Council 1. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ........................................................ 19 2. Committee on Middle East Questions ................................................................................. 20 3. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law (IHL) ......................... 20 4. Gender Partnership Group .................................................................................................. 21 5. Forum of Young Parliamentarians of the IPU ...................................................................... 21 Other events 1. Joint Meeting of Chairpersons of the Geopolitical Groups and Presidents of the Standing Committees ................................................................................................ 22 2. Panel discussion on Parliamentary action in meeting international commitments to counter terrorism ............................................................................................................. 23 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 133rd Assembly 3. Launch of the revised Handbook for Parliamentarians on Migration, human rights and governance ............................................................................................. 23 4. Launch of the joint IPU-UNAIDS publication on Fast-tracking HIV treatment: Parliamentary action and policy options .............................................................................. 23 5. Parity debate on Parliamentary oversight and political will ................................................. 24 6. Open session of the Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law ……… ..................................................................................................... 24 7. Side event on the theme Monitor, review and act: Parliamentary leadership in implementing the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health ......... 25 8. 2015 Future Policy Awards Ceremony ………………………………………………………… 25 9. Panel discussion jointly organized by the IPU and the ASGP on Powerful parliaments: Building capacity for effective parliamentary oversight ....................................................... 26 10. Prize-giving ceremony for essay competition on peace ...................................................... 26 11. Information session on the IPU ........................................................................................... 26 Elections, appointments and membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Elections and appointments 1. Executive Committee .......................................................................................................... 27 2. Sub-Committee on Finance ................................................................................................. 27 3. Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians ........................................................ 27 4. Committee on Middle East Questions ................................................................................. 27 5. Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law .................................. 27 6. Group of Facilitators for Cyprus .......................................................................................... 27 7. Rapporteurs to the 135th Assembly ..................................................................................... 27 8. Bureaux of the Standing Committees ................................................................................. 28 9. Internal Auditors for the 2016 accounts .............................................................................. 28 Media and communications .................................................................................................... 29 Membership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ........................................................................ 30 Agenda, resolutions and other texts of the 133rd Assembly Agenda .................................................................................................................................... 31 Declaration from the General Debate on The imperative for fairer, smarter and more humane migration .......................................................................................................... 32 Subject items · Resolution: Democracy in the digital era and the threat to privacy and individual freedoms .............................................................................................. 35 Emergency item · Results of the roll-call vote on the requests for the inclusion of an emergency item in the agenda of the Assembly ....................................................................... 39-42 · Resolution: The role of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, parliaments, parliamentarians, and international and regional organizations in providing necessary protection and urgent support to those who have become refugees through war, internal conflict and social circumstances, according to the principles of international humanitarian law and international conventions ......... 43 Reports · Report of the Standing Committee on Peace and International Security ............ 46 · Report of the Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade ............................................................................................... 48 · Report of the Standing Committee on United Nations Affairs .............................. 51 2 Inter-Parliamentary Union – 133rd Assembly Reports, decisions and other texts of the Governing Council Reports, decisions and other texts · Presidential Statement ................................................................................................. 53 · IPU Budget for 2016 .................................................................................................... 54 · Scale of contributions for 2016 .................................................................................... 55 · Cooperation with the United Nations system: List of activities undertaken by the IPU from 15 March to 15 October 2015 ............................................................ 59 · Implementation of the IPU Strategy for 2012-2017: - Strategic Objective 1 – Strengthen democracy through parliaments ..................... 63 - Strategic Objective 2 – Advance Gender Equality ................................................. 64 - Strategic Objective 3 – Protect and promote human rights .................................... 66 - Strategic Objective 5 – Build parliamentary support for international development goals Contribution to the post-2015 development agenda .............................................. 68 · List of Permanent Observers ....................................................................................... 70 Future meetings · Calendar of future meetings and other activities ......................................................... 72 th · Agenda of the 134 Assembly ..................................................................................... 74 Decisions concerning the Human Rights of Parliamentarians · Mr. Dieudonné Ambassa Zang, of Cameroon ............................................................. 75 · Mr. Jean-Bertrand Ewanga, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....................... 78 · Eleven parliamentarians of Eritrea ..............................................................................