In August 2023, Members of the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians travelled to Iraq, pleading for the swift release of an opposition MP who had been arrested arbitrarily a decade earlier. The arrest had happened early one morning in December 2013, when more than 50 security officials arrived at the home of Ahmed Al-Alwani in the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. Mr. Al-Alwani reportedly offered to surrender, but a gunfight ensued, killing his brother and seven other people. In violation of his parliamentary immunity, Mr. Al-Alwani was arrested without warrant, held incommunicado for a month and

Discover how the global tech community is tracking greenhouse gas emissions with unprecedented detail and speed to tackle the climate crisis. The Climate TRACE database, mobilized by the global tech community, provides an inventory of emissions of more than 352 million assets, and its data is freely available to the public including parliamentarians. Supported by ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. Find out more about the IPU’s campaign Parliaments for the Planet designed to mobilize parliaments to act on the climate emergency.