United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
A Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations, also referred as a UN World Parliament or Parliament should be established as a new organ of the United Nations, according to the will of many international organizations, International NGOs and international networks.
The delegates of this parliamentary assembly to be deployed depending on the proposal of the parliaments of the Member States or directly elected by the citizens of the Member States. The idea of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly already existed at the founding of the United Nations in 1945, but was not represented until the 1990s, to a greater extent. With the increasing globalization of the approach in recent years, but was re currently: National Parliaments and NGOs try to strengthen citizen participation and democracy in international institutions. The meeting could be set up under Article 22 of the UN Charter by a resolution of the UN General Assembly.
The existing since 1889 Inter-Parliamentary Union, a parliamentary assembly, in which delegates from 147 parliaments, has no institutional link with the UN and can not make binding decisions.
Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly
In April 2007 " campaign for a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations " has formed an international network of non-governmental organizations and parliamentarians in the which works exclusively on this goal. The campaign have over 700 delegates and more than 250 non-governmental organizations from around the world connected. Secretariat of the campaign is the Berlin-based Committee for a Democratic UN, founded in 2003. The supporters include celebrities such as Emma Thompson, Edgar Mitchell, Günter Grass, Roméo Dallaire or Boutros Boutros -Ghali. With the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council, the Pan-African Parliament and the Latin American Parliament, four continental parliamentary institutions in the world for the establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations to speak out. As the first national parliament, the Argentine Parliament supports the call for a Parliament of the United Nations. In 2010, spoke next to the National Executive of Alliance 90 / The Greens Bob Brown, the parliamentary chairman Australian Greens, for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly of. In June 2011 the European Parliament called on the EU and the Council, operating within the common foreign and security policy for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. This call was taken up in an open letter to the Chancellor and the Foreign Minister, who was signed by 37 associations and organizations and numerous personalities and published on 20 September 2011. The signatories included, among other things, Sigmar Gabriel, Hans Eichel, Erwin Teufel, Rita Süssmuth and Heiner Geissler and numerous professors, some 70 MPs from all parties in the Bundestag and the European Parliament, Attac, the Association for the Environment and Nature Protection, the Senate of the German economy, the Young European Federalists and World Vision.