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Human Rights Decision
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Twentyfour parliamentarians
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
PAL/16, PAL/17, PAL/22, PAL/24, PAL/25, PAL/27, PAL/28, PAL/29, PAL/30, PAL/34, PAL/35, PAL/36, PAL/38, PAL/40, PAL/43, PAL/47, PAL/48, PAL/49, PAL/52, PAL/53, PAL/54, PAL/55, PAL/56, PAL/57, PAL/58
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English
Country:
Israel
Palestine
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Alvaro Araújo Castro
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
CO/142
External link:
English
Country:
Colombia
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Saturniño OcampoMr. Teodoro CasiñoMs. Liza MazaMr. Rafael Mariano
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
PHI/02,PHI/04,PHI/05,PHI/06
English
Country:
Philippines
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Iván Cepeda Castro,Mr. Alexander López,Mr. Jorge Enrique Robledo, Mr. Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo,Mr. Wilson Arias Castillo
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
CO/146,CO/147, CO/148, CO/149, CO/150
English
Country:
Colombia
IPU structure:
Governing council
Ms. Galina Starovoitova
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
RUS/01
External link:
English
Country:
Russian Federation
IPU structure:
Governing council
Eleven parliamentarians
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
ERI/01, ERI/02, ERI/03, ERI/04, ERI/05, ERI/06ERI/07, ERI/08, ERI/09, ERI/10, ERI/11
External link:
English
Country:
Eritrea
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Rwanda
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Mohammed Al-Dainy
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
IQ/59
External link:
English
Country:
Iraq
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
SRI/49
External link:
English
Country:
Sri Lanka
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Cambodia
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Dieudonné Ambassa Zang
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
CM/01
External link:
English
Country:
Cameroon
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Pedro Nel Jimenéz Obando,Mr. Leonardo Posada Pedraza,Mr. Octavio Vargas Cuéllar,Mr. Pedro Luis Valencia Giraldo,Mr. Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa,Mr. Manuel Cepeda Vargas,Mr. Hernán Motta Motta
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
CO/01,CO/02,CO/03,CO/04,CO/06,CO/08,CO/09
English
Country:
Colombia
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
CO/07
External link:
English
Country:
Colombia
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Colombia
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Bangladesh
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Bangladesh
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Belarus
IPU structure:
Governing council
Twenty parliamentarians
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
BDI/01, BDI/05, BDI/06, BDI/07, BDI/29, BDI/35,BDI/02,BDI/26, BDI/36, BDI/37, BDI/40, BDI/42, BDI/43, BDI/45, BDI/46,BDI/42, BDI/44, BDI/53, BDI/57,BDI/59, BDI/60
External link:
English
Country:
Burundi
IPU structure:
Governing council
English
Country:
Cambodia
IPU structure:
Governing council
Mr. Thiyagarajah Maheswaran
Document type:
Human Rights Decision
SRI/61
External link:
English
Country:
Sri Lanka
IPU structure:
Governing council