Henvendelse af 16/9-20 fra David Donat Cattin, Parliamentarians for Global Action, om besøg hos Bertel Haarder

ABOUT PARLIAMENTARIANS FOR GLOBAL ACTION (PGA) – WWW.PGACTION.ORG
Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) is the largest international, cross-party, membership-based organization
comprised of – and governed by – individual members of parliament (MPs). This global network of parliamentarians
works to contribute to the creation of a rules-based international order for a more equitable, safe and democratic world.
Member-parliamentarians are supported by a PGA National Group structure in parliaments, which creates sustainability
and ownership of issues at the national level, and by a Secretariat with relevant expertise. PGA members (and their
staff) see PGA as a natural extension of their own parliamentary teams and rely on its expert Secretariat for advice and
technical assistance. This unique model of assistance to member-parliamentarians worldwide allows PGA to effectively
and efficiently carry out strategic activities both in person and remotely.
PGA’s Executive Committee meets twice a year and consists of 15 MPs elected by the PGA International Council; the
International Council itself meets annually and allows the National Groups’ representatives to report on progress and
challenges faced in advancing PGA’s priorities. In accordance with the organization’s by-laws, the Executive Committee
must maintain a 40:60 either gender ratio.
PGA is in general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations with headquarters in
New York. PGA’s office in The Hague, Netherlands fosters cooperation with The Hague-based International
Organizations, including the International Criminal Court (ICC).
PGA’S THEORY OF CHANGE
Members of Parliament (MPs) have a key role to play in national and global efforts to promote and protect human
rights, democracy, peace and sustainable development: in their capacity as lawmakers, in their Government-oversight
functions, and as democratically-elected representatives of the people who play important leadership roles in their
communities.
By using a peer-to-peer methodology and country-specific strategies, the PGA Secretariat and leading members work
together to educate, sensitize, build the technical capacity and strengthen the political will of parliamentarians in order to
take ownership, concrete initiatives and legislative actions to achieve results on PGA’s campaign objectives. PGA works
with individual parliamentarians in their national contexts and legislative circumstances, leveraging that capacity with
international networking to support global gains for democracy, human rights, and peace that transcend borders.
PROGRAMMES AND CAMPAIGNS
International Law and Human Rights Programme
• Campaign for the Rome Statute of the ICC aims to promote the universalization of the Rome Statute and effective the
effective exercise of primary jurisdiction by States and of complementary jurisdiction by the International Criminal
Court (ICC). It seeks to contribute to ending impunity for atrocity-crimes by advancing access to justice for victims
through the universal ratification and effective implementation of the Rome Statute and relevant amendments in
national jurisdictions. PGA has contributed to the ratification of 78 out of 123 State Parties to the Rome Statute and
its domestic implementation in 36 countries. PGA’s Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the International
Criminal Court and the Rule of Law (CAP-ICC) is the largest gathering of parliamentarians on this issue. Due to
this campaign, PGA is widely recognized as the parliamentary network that works in international justice.
• Campaign for the Abolition of the Death Penalty focuses not only on reducing the scope of use of capital punishment,
abolishing it altogether and widening the support to international instruments on abolition (like the Second
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or ICCPR-OP2), but also on ensuring
that abolitionist countries which apply a moratorium do not reintroduce capital punishment in their criminal laws or
resume executions. PGA has contributed to 7 Legislative reforms reducing the scope of the death penalty and/or
ratifications of relevant international instruments.
• Campaign for Protection of the Oceans and Implementation of SDG 14 aims to end impunity for crimes committed on and
against the world’s oceans and their related human rights violations through ratification and implementation of
international treaties to End Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Fishing. The Campaign also seeks to create
effective national legal structures for promoting a Sustainable Small-scale Fishing (SSF) Industry. PGA has
contributed to ratification of the Cape Town Agreement (CTA).
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Gender, Equality and Inclusion Programme
• Campaign to End Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) seeks to mobilize parliamentarians
as human rights champions, taking action to guarantee that all individuals have equal value, live with dignity, and are
able to achieve their highest potential free from all forms of violence and discrimination, including on the basis of
sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). PGA has contributed to
9 LGBTI-inclusive legislative reforms. In collaboration with UN Development Programme, PGA published
Advancing the Human Rights and Inclusion of LGBTI People: A Handbook for Parliamentarians and launched an LGBTI
Inclusion Site with tools designed to assist parliamentarians and stakeholders better understand their role in
ensuring equality and non-discrimination of all individuals.
• Campaign to End Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) seeks to end CEFM by providing tools to parliamentarians
to assert the primacy of national legislation over religious and customary laws; establish 18 years as the minimum
age for legal marriage; reaffirm civil registration for births and marriages, health and education systems; and
guarantee the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights, property rights, and access to justice for all
girls and women. PGA has contributed to 7 reforms of civil and family codes, raising the minimum marriage age to
18 years. PGA’s Global Parliamentary Declaration to End Child Marriage has secured commitments from 774 MPs
from 80 countries around the world in support of SDG 5 on achieving gender equality and empowering all women
and girls.
International Peace and Security Programme
• Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 Campaign seeks to
contribute to a reduction in the threat posed by, as well as proliferation of, biological weapons and other weapons
of mass destruction (WMDs) through the universality and implementation of the BWC and full implementation of
UNSCRs 1540 (2004) and 2325 (2016), which expressly recognize the key role of parliamentarians. PGA has
contributed to 6 ratifications of/accession to the BWC. PGA has also played an important role in presenting the
first National Report of Guinea-Bissau to the UNSC 1540 Committee.
• Small Arms and Light Weapons and Arms Trade Treaty Campaign seeks to contribute to a worldwide reduction in armed
violence, and the threat of armed violence, as a result of consequential steps taken to address the illicit trade in small
arms and light weapons (SALW) and, more broadly, to promote the universality and implementation of the Arms
Trade Treaty (ATT). PGA significantly contributed to moving the ATT signature process forward in 44 of the 130
UN member states that signed the ATT before its entry into force; and the ratification process in 45 of the 100 UN
member states that have ratified the ATT.
• Prohibiting Fully Autonomous Weapons Campaign aims to promote and gain parliamentary endorsements for the Global
Parliamentary Declaration in Support of the Negotiation of a Treaty Prohibiting Fully Autonomous Weapons.
Thirty countries have endorsed the call for a prohibition on fully autonomous weapons.
Core Campaign
• Campaign for Democratic Renewal and Human Rights aims to contribute directly to PGA’s vision by promoting
norms, regulations and best practices reinforcing and protecting civil and political democratic space and
protecting the human rights of democracy activists, especially parliamentarians in opposition, women in politics,
minorities and vulnerable groups. PGA launched the Parliamentary Rapid Response Team (PARRT), a unique
cohort of democracy champions to respond nimbly, intervening when parliamentarians and human rights
defenders are at risk.
PGA PARTNERS AND DONORS
Core Donors: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark;
and Stewart R. Mott Foundation
International Organizations: European Union / European Commission and UN Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on
Arms Regulation (UNSCAR)
Governments providing Campaign suppport: Global Affairs Canada; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Norway; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland; Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the
UN; and United States Department of State (Global Equality Fund)
Foundations and Other Private Entities: Arcus Foundation; CRDF Global; Environmental Law Institute; Oak Foundation;
Open Society Foundations; Raymond & Elizabeth Bloch Charitable and Education Foundation; The Sigrid Rausing
Trust; and Pew Charitable Trust
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President
Ms. Margareta Cederfelt, MP, Sweden
Board
Ms. Petra Bayr, MP, Austria
Mr. Ali Ehsassi, MP, Canada
Dep. Emilie Béatrice Epaye, Central African Republic
Dip. Jorge Cálix, Honduras
Hon. Millie Odhiambo, MP, Kenya
Ms. Kasthuri Patto, MP, Malaysia
Hon. Rozaina Adam, MP, Maldives
Dep. Amina Maelainine, Morocco
Dep. Antonio Niquice, Mozambique
Hon. Syed Naveed Qamar, MP, Pakistan
Treasurer
Dep. Levy Nazaré, São Tomé and Príncipe
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL
Chair
Dip. Tucapel Jiménez Fuentes, Chile
Councillors
Mr. Anastas Angjeli, MP, Albania
Dip. María Carla Piccolomini, Argentina
Ms. Maria Vamvakinou, MP, Australia
Dep. Reine Benao Sakande, Burkina Faso
Dep. José Manuel Sanches Tavares, Cape Verde
Hon. Roland Achille Bangue Betangai, MP, Central
African Republic
Dip. Magda Rodríguez, Dominican Republic
Dip. María Soledad Buendía Herdoiza, Ecuador
Hon. Dawda Kawsu Jawara, MP, The Gambia
Ms. Supriya Sadanand Sule, MP, India
Mr. Faig Al Sheikh Ali, MP, Iraq
Ms. Lia Quartapelle, MP, Italy
Dep. Ana Rita Sithole, Mozambique
Hon. Evelyn Nawases-Taeyele, MP, Namibia
Sen. Boris Dittrich, The Netherlands
Mr. Adrian Rurawhe, MP, New Zealand
Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas, MP, Nigeria
Dep. Raul Cardoso, São Tomé and Príncipe
Mr. Patrick Kensenhuis, MP, Suriname
Mr. Anders Österberg, MP, Sweden
Hon. Jasson Rweikiza, MP, Tanzania
Sen. Wade Mark, Trinidad and Tobago
Hon. Jacob Oboth-Oboth, MP, Uganda
Dr. Hryhoriy Nemyria, MP, Ukraine
Mr. Mark Pritchard, MP, United Kingdom
Dip. Jose Carlos Mahia, Uruguay
Dip. Armando Armas, Venezuela
Hon. Dorcas Sibanda, MP, Zimbabwe
SECRETARIAT
Secretary-General
Dr. David Donat Cattin
NGO in general consultative status
with the Economic and Social Council
16 September 2020
Mr. Bertel Haarder, MP (Denmark)
Chairperson, Foreign Affairs Committee
Christiansborg Palace
1240 København K - Denmark
Dear Mr. Haarder,
I am very grateful for the excellent meeting we had in your office on Thursday, 10
September 2020.
As a follow up to our meeting and your gracious offer to transmit materials about
PGA to members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, please find attached the
following two documents:
1. “About Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)” – a description of PGA’s
organizational features with brief summaries of PGA’s Campaigns, which are
designed to implement our vision: to contribute to the creation of a rules-based
international order for a more equitable, safe and democratic world.
2. Membership form, which can be filled out on paper or online directly at
https://www.pgaction.org/membership/join-pga.html.
PGA is the largest non-governmental, multi-party organization of individual
parliamentarians, with approximately 1,200 Members in 136 parliaments, including
regional assemblies.
We are honored to serve as the global parliamentary partner of World Pride
Copenhagen 2021, and an organizing partner of the Global Parliamentary Assembly
hosted by the Parliament of Denmark in August 2021
(https://copenhagen2021.com/new-partner-for-the-human-rights-forum/). We look
forward to contributing to global parliamentary participation in the event by
supporting participants from Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Americas in this pivotal
event for the protection and promotion of the fundamental rights of LGTBI
persons.
We look forward to cooperating with you and all interested Members of the Danish
Parliament.
Gratefully yours,
David Donat Cattin
Secretary-General
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