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10/06/2016
A meeting of MPs specializing in international trade is expected to call for urgent action to implement multilateral agreements which benefit the developing world. The Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization (WTO), co-chaired by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and
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02/06/2016
Members of Parliament from the Middle East, including Israel and Palestine, have identified a series of historic first steps to tackle the critical issue of ensuring water supplies across the region. In a unique three-day round-table meeting that ended today
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27/05/2016
Members of Parliament from the Middle East, including Israel and Palestine, will take part in a round-table event next week to seek solutions to the critical issue of Middle East water resources. The MPs will explore scientific and technological solutions
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27/05/2016
Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Committee to Promote Respect for International Humanitarian Law are to undertake a three-day mission to Lebanon to assess the Syrian refugee crisis. The mission, starting on 30 May, will investigate the situation of Syrian
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24/05/2016
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has stressed the critical importance of the principle of parliamentary immunity after a vote in the Turkish Parliament amending the constitution effectively stripped a quarter of the country’s MPs of their immunity. IPU is concerned that
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19/04/2016
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23/03/2016
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23/03/2016
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22/03/2016
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20/03/2016
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16/03/2016
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14/03/2016
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10/03/2016
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04/03/2016
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19/02/2016
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17/02/2016
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11/02/2016
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27/01/2016
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17/12/2015
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11/12/2015
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