2023
October 24 | Panama City, Panama
September 28 | Mexico City, Mexico
RESOURCES
PRESENTATIONS
- A food secure future: Building people and planet-centered strategies – Day 1
- A food secure future: Building people and planet-centered strategies – Day 2
ELECTION ADVISORIES
Parliamentary Network for Gender Equality (PNGE)
Parliamentary Network on Climate Change (PNCC)
During the 7th Gathering of the ParlAmericas Parliamentary Network on Climate Change (PNCC) and the 15th Gathering of the Parliamentary Network for Gender Equality (PNGE), elections will be held for certain positions on the Networks’ Executive Committees and for the host parliament of the next gathering. Nominations received can be found below.
PNCC Executive Commitee nominations
PNCC Presidency
- Senator Rosa Galvez (Canada)
PNCC Vice-Presidency – North America
- Senator Raúl Bolaños-Cacho Cué (Mexico)
PNCC Vice-Presidency – South America
- Member of the Member of the Chamber of Deputies Margarita Stolbizer (Argentina)
- Member of the National Assembly Radjendrekoemar Debie (Suriname)
PNCC Vice-Presidency – Caribbean
- Member of the Chamber of Deputies Nelsa Shoraya Suárez Ariza (Dominican Republic)
- Senator Anthony Vieira (Trinidad and Tobago)
PNGE Executive Committee nominations
PNGE Presidency
- Senator Verónica Noemí Camino Farjat (Mexico)
PNGE Vice-Presidency – North America
- Member of Parliament Stephanie Kusie (Canada)
PNGE Vice-Presidency – South America
PNGE Vice-Presidency – Central America
- Member of the National Assembly Kayra Harding Bart (Panama)
- Member of Congress Andrea Villagrán Ánton (Guatemala)
PNGE Vice-Presidency – Caribbean
- Senator Lisa Jawahir (Saint Lucia)
August 23 | San José, Costa Rica
RESOURCES
- Model Protocol for Political Parties. Preventing, Addressing, Punishing, and Eradicating Violence Against Women in Political Life, Inter-American Commission of Women
August 17 | Panama City, Panama
August 16 | Panama City, Panama
RESOURCES
- Political Participation Of Women In Panama (In Spanish)
August 16 | Virtual Meeting

RESOURCES
- Parliaments and the Paris Agreement. ParlAmericas.
- Guide on Green Parliaments: Actions to Promote Sustainable Practices within Parliaments. ParlAmericas.
- Environment and Sustainability: Mapping the Strategies and Plans in the Americas and the Caribbean, ParlAmericas interactive resource.
August 10 | Brasilia, Brazil
INFO BULLETIN (in Spanish)
KIT INFORMATIVO (in Spanish)
PRESENTATIONS
- General Directorate of Equality. Argentina (in Spanish)
- Open and Inclusive Parliaments: Promotion of Gender and Racial Equality in the Federal Senate. Brazil (in Spanish)
- Open and Inclusive Parliaments: Experiences and Strategies in Latin America. Chile (in Spanish)
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Children’s congress. Honduras (in Spanish)
- Alliance for Open Parliament. Paraguay (in Spanish)
- Citizen Participation. Uruguay (in Spanish)
July 11 | Virtual Meeting

PRESENTATION
- The Escazú Agreement: Where are we now? David Barrio Lamarche, 2023.
RESOURCES
- Factsheet for Parliamentarians: The Escazú Agreement, an Environmental and Human Rights Treaty. PGA, 2022.
- Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean. Implementation guide. ECLAC, 2022.
- Towards an Environmental Democracy with a Gender Perspective. IUCN, FARN, and ECO MAXEI, 2022.
- Road Map Towards Legislative Openness 2.0. ParlAmericas, 2022.
- Toolkit: Citizen Participation in the Legislative Process. ParlAmericas, 2018.
- Observatory on Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC, website.
- Environment and Sustainability: Mapping the Strategies and Plans in the Americas and the Caribbean, ParlAmericas interactive resource.
- Actions for Climate Empowerment (ACE)
- Gender and climate change action plans
- Status on the ratification of the Escazú Agreement
May 30 | Virtual Meeting
PRESENTATION
- Brazil (In Portuguese)
May 24 | Virtual Meeting

PRESENTATIONS
- International landscape and the importance of ending plastic pollution. UNEP, 2023.
- Circular Economy of Plastics. WRAP, 2023.
- Transitioning away from a linear economy. EMF, 2023.
- Decent work in the circular economy: An overview of the existing evidence base. Circular Economy. ILO, and S4YE, 2023.
- Turning off the Tap: How the world can end plastic pollution and create a circular economy. UNEP, 2023.
- Monitoring trade in plastic waste and scrap. OCDE, 2022.
April 20 | Santiago, Chile

Presentations:
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) – In Spanish
- UN Women – In Spanish
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights – In Spanish
- Media Institute of the Caribbean
- Digital Moment
- Member of the Legislative Assembly Luz Mary Alpízar (Costa Rica) – In Spanish
- Senator Kenneth Pugh (Chile) – In Spanish
- Latin American Network of Legislative Transparency – In Spanish
- She Leads IT
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – In Spanish
During the 7th Gathering of the ParlAmericas Open Parliament Network, elections will be held for certain positions on the Network’s Executive Committee and for the host parliament of the next gathering. Nominations received can be found below.
- Presidency
- Senator Javier Macaya Danus (Chile)
- Vice-Presidency – North America
- Senator Bertha Alicia Caraveo Camarena (Mexico)
- Senator René Cormier (Canada)
- Vice-Presidency – Center America
- Vice-Presidency – South America