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Parliamentarians for Global Action is a non-profit and non-partisan international organization of more than 1,300 free elected legislators from 120 democratic countries. It was established circa 1978 as Parliamentarians for World Order engaged in a range of action-oriented initiatives that promote democracy, peace, justice and development throughout the world. The vision of PGA is "to contribute to the creation of a Rules-Based International Order for a more equitable, safe and democratic world".
The main office of PGA is located in New York City, close to the United Nations, while the seat of the PGA Foundation is in The Hague, in proximity to the International Court of Justice, the Hague Academy of International Law and the International Criminal Court.
It promoted the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court since 1989 and the ratification of the International Criminal Court treaty, the Rome Statute, since 1998. PGA has been working on expanding membership of the ICC in more than 65 countries in all regions of the world. PGA members, for example, have been instrumental to the recent accessions to the Rome Statute of the ICC by Japan, Suriname and the Cook Islands, as well as to the ratifications of Chile, Bangladesh, the Seychelles and St. Lucia.
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