INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PARLIAMENTARISM

About:

• The United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/72/278, recognized the role of parliaments in national plans and strategies and in ensuring greater transparency and accountability at national and global levels.
  
  
• It is also the date, in 1889, on which the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) — the global organization of parliaments — was established. The IPU has permanent observer status at the United Nations General Assembly and is Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
  
  
• This Day celebrates parliaments and the ways in which parliamentary systems of government improve the day-to-day lives of people the world over.