BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.10//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:Network Calendar NAME:Network Calendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:International Day of Parliamentarism DTSTAMP:20221225T144446Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:330-7-014e54df8e55db0ddedbc25b476240ab@moraga.se ORGANIZER;CN="Julio Moraga":julio@moraga.se DESCRIPTION:\n (A/RES/72/278)\n\n\n\n The International Day of Parliamen tarism is celebrated every year on 30 June\, the date in 1889 on which the IPU was founded. The Day was established in 2018 through a United Nations General Assembly Resolution.\n\n\n\n Instituting an international day for parliaments is particularly important at this critical time for parliamen tary democracy\, when people are losing trust in political institutions an d democracy itself is facing challenges from populist and nationalist move ments. If democracy is to thrive\, then parliaments\, as the cornerstone o f functioning democracies\, need to be strong\, transparent\, accountable and representative.\n\n\n\n The International Day of Parliamentarism is a time to review the progress that parliaments have made in achieving some k ey goals to be more representative and move with the times\, including car rying out self-assessments\, working to include more women and young MPs\, and adapting to new technologies.\n\n\n\n The United Nations General Asse mbly\, in its resolution A/RES/72/278\, recognized the role of parliaments in national plans and strategies and in ensuring greater transparency and accountability at national and global levels.\n\n\n\n What parliaments do \n\n Strong parliaments are a cornerstone of democracy. They represent the voice of the people\, pass laws\, allocate funds to implement laws and po licies\, and hold governments to account. They work to make sure that poli cies benefit all people\, especially the most vulnerable.\n\n\n\n Parliame nts also link international and national agendas\, ensuring that governmen ts implement international treaties and agreements that they sign up to. T hey play a vital role in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Deve lopment\, and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has been working closely with them to help build their capacity in doing so.\n\n\n\n In countries emerging from conflict\, robust parliaments can help make possible a peace ful transition to a functioning democracy by healing divisions in society through dialogue and cooperation.\n\n\n\n Parliaments and the United Natio ns\n\n Member States have encouraged the growing involvement of parliament arians and parliamentary organizations in the work of the United Nations. Parliamentary organizations play a leading role in promoting the engagemen t of parliaments in United Nations processes and activities. Indeed\, ther e is a recognition that when parliamentarians communicate their concerns a nd aspirations to the United Nations\, the Organization is empowered to wo rk more closely with the people of the world.\n\n\n\n The IPU\, as the wor ld organization of parliaments\, connects national parliaments in order to promote greater transparency\, accountability and participation at the gl obal level. Along with other parliamentary organizations\, IPU engages wit h the United Nations on activities that cover a broad range of issues\, in cluding peace and security\, human rights and sustainable development.\n\n \n\n Parliaments and the SDGs\n\n Parliaments and parliamentary organizati ons played an active role throughout the negotiations on the post-2015 dev elopment framework\, advocating strongly\, for instance\, for the inclusio n of goals related to democratic governance. Goal 16 of the Sustainable De velopment Goals is dedicated to the promotion of peaceful and inclusive so cieties for sustainable development\, access to justice for all\, and buil ding effective\, accountable institutions at all levels.\n\n\n\n The IPU a nd partners have published a radically new approach to measuring parliamen tary progress with the launch of a preliminary version of indicators that will allow parliaments to give themselves a health check.\n\n\n\n The Indi cators for Democratic Parliaments Based on SDG Targets 16.6 and 16.7 provi de parliaments with a self-assessment tool that allows them to assess thei r democratic structure\, operations\, and activities against set criteria in order to build more resilient\, effective\, and independent institution s.\n\n\n\n Did you know?\n\n Every country in the world has some form of r epresentative government.\n\n Parliamentary systems fall into two categori es: bicameral (with two chambers of parliament) and unicameral (with one c hamber).\n\n Out of 193 countries\, 79 are bicameral and 114 are unicamera l\, making a total of 272 chambers of parliament with over 46\,000 members of parliament.\n\n 26.2% of the world's members of parliament are women.\ n\n Individuals aged 20-39 make up 38.6% of the world’s population - yet only 17.5% of MPs are under 40.\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180630 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR