As human-rights protections slip worldwide, the authors argue that the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in a group photo, October 2019, above, can establish a “critical link between international agreements and domestic progress on human-rights issues.”
A session of the 139th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Geneva, October 2018. Changes in the makeup of national legislatures were pronounced in 2018, with a record number of women elected in America, for example. Such radical shifts in national lawmaking bodies could endure in 2019, yet younger people are not running for office in droves.
A participant and her daughter attending the 12th Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament in April, organized this year by the Chamber of Deputies in Bolivia and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The IPU reports that antidemocratic challenges are gaining worldwide, including the stagnation of women’s participation in politics.
