As Canada and Latin America navigate a rapidly evolving global landscape, strengthening partnerships across the hemisphere remains essential to advancing shared prosperity, resilience, and sustainable development. With this objective, the Canadian Section of ParlAmericas (CPAM), in collaboration with the Group of Embassies of Latin American countries (GRULA), hosted the Fourth Latin American Dialogue on the...

The growing digitization of public life has expanded opportunities for citizen participation and democratic debate, but it has also created new spaces for the reproduction and amplification of violence and discrimination. In this context, gender-based digital political violence has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges to ensuring that women, in all their diversity,...

At a time of growing uncertainty in North American trade relations and broader shifts in the international economic landscape, Canada and Mexico face renewed questions about the future of regional integration and the opportunities to deepen their bilateral partnership. These issues framed a visit by a delegation from Mexico's Chamber of Deputies to the Parliament...

Each October, Latin American Heritage Month offers an opportunity to celebrate the vibrant cultures, diverse experiences, and lasting contributions of Latin American Canadians, while also reflecting on the deep connections that continue to strengthen relationships between Canada and Latin America. As part of activities marking Latin American Heritage Month in Canada, ParlAmericas and SENgage, the...

The expansion of organized crime, the diversification of illicit economies, and emerging forms of violence have placed public security at the forefront of political priorities across the Americas and the Caribbean. Their consequences extend well beyond criminal activity, affecting the daily lives of millions of people and raising fundamental questions about how States can ensure...

Latin America and the Caribbean face an international landscape in which power relations, economic competition, and technological rivalries are redefining the conditions for development. Amid these transformations, the region faces a strategic challenge: to go beyond responding to changes in the world order and strengthen its capacity to shape them according to its own interests...

Women’s economic autonomy is an enabling condition for the full exercise of their rights and for the construction of more equal, inclusive, and prosperous societies. But it is not merely a matter of equity: promoting women’s full participation in the labour market and expanding their access to opportunities has a stimulating effect on the economy...

In an international landscape marked by geopolitical fragmentation, pressures on democratic institutions, and a multilateral system under growing strain, maintaining channels for political dialogue across regions has taken on renewed importance. Guided by this institutional conviction, ParlAmericas participated in the XII Ibero-American Parliamentary Forum, convened on October 1-2 in Madrid by the Cortes Generales of...

Digital violence against women poses a growing challenge for democracies. Ensuring that digital environments are safe spaces for participation, expression, and the exercise of rights is a challenge shared by a variety of actors, including governments, parliaments, experts, advocates, civil society organizations, and internet intermediaries. The goal is to promote inclusive digital governance, based on...

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is presenting parliaments with decisions that are difficult to delay, even as the technology, its applications and its risks continue to evolve. For Latin American parliaments, the challenge is not simply to regulate, but to define what kind of AI governance reflects the region’s realities, protects rights, and,...