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Human Rights Decision
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Dieudonné Ambassa Zang
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
CM/01
External link:
English
Country:
Cameroon
IPU structure:
Governing council
Joseph Pararajasingham Nadarajah Raviraj Thiyagarajah Maheswaran D.M. Dassanayake Sivaganam Shritharan
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
SRI/49,SRI/53,SRI/61,SRI/63,SRI/69
English
Country:
Sri Lanka
IPU structure:
Governing council
Jean-Bertrand Ewanga
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
DRC/83
External link:
English
Country:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Russian Federation
IPU structure:
Governing council
Ogbe Abraha, Aster Fissehatsion, Berhane Gebregziabeher, Beraki Gebreselassie, Hamad Hamid Hamad, Saleh Kekiya, Germano Nati, Estifanos Seyoum, Mahmoud Ahmed Sheriffo, Petros Solomon, Haile Woldetensa
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
ERI/01, ERI/02, ERI/03, ERI/04, ERI/05, ERI/06, ERI/07, ERI/08, ERI/09, ERI/10, ERI/11
English
Country:
Eritrea
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mohamed Gatof Mansour Al-Dainy
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
IQ/59
External link:
English
Country:
Iraq
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Niger
IPU structure:
Governing council
Ahmed Jamil Salman Al-Alwani
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
IQ/62
External link:
English
Country:
Iraq
IPU structure:
Governing council
Álvaro Araújo Castro
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
CO/142
External link:
English
Country:
Colombia
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Israel
Palestine
IPU structure:
Governing council
Fourteen parliamentarians
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
VEN/10, VEN/11, VEN/12, VEN/13, VEN/14, VEN/15, VEN/16, VEN/17, VEN/18, VEN/19, VEN/20, VEN/21, VEN/22, VEN/23
External link:
English
Country:
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Israel
Palestine
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Bangladesh
IPU structure:
Governing council
Sixteen parliamentarians
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
PAL/28, PAL/29, PAL/30, PAL/32, PAL/47, PAL/57, PAL/61, PAL/62, PAL/63, PAL/64, PAL/65, PAL/75, PAL/78, PAL/79, PAL/80, PAL/82
External link:
English
Country:
Israel
Palestine
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Bangladesh
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Israel
Palestine
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Malaysia
IPU structure:
Governing council
Twenty parliamentarians"
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
ZM/01, ZM/02, ZM/03, ZM/04, ZM/05, ZM/06, ZM/07, ZM/08, ZM/09, ZM/10, ZM/11, ZM/12, ZM/13, ZM/14, ZM/15, ZM/16, ZM/17, ZM/18, ZM/19, ZM/20
External link:
English
Country:
Zambia
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Rwanda
IPU structure:
Governing council
N. Surendran Teresa Kok Khalid Samad Rafizi Ramli Chua Tian Chang Ng Wei Aik Teo Kok Seong
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
MAL/21
MAL/22
MAL/23
MAL/24
MAL/25
MAL/26
MAL/27
English
Country:
Malaysia
IPU structure:
Governing council