The Brazilian parliament holds a public hearing session on the situation in Gaza on November 7, 2023...

The European Parliament says it is going to host a series of events on February 1st and 2nd to discuss the situation of Afghan women following the political change in the country...

Roberta Metsola speaks in the European Parliament...

The photo shows Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attending the prime minister’s questions session in the House of Commons, in London, the UK, on January 12, 2022...

FILE PHOTO. © AFP / Niklas HALLE’N Repairs to the Palace of Westminster could last for two decades and cost £14 billion, exceeding initial estimates more than three times, the British media has learned...

UK Conservative Party MP Jacob Rees-Mogg reacts as he arrives at Downing Street, in London, Britain July 24, 2019...

Saudi women rights activists (L-R): Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, Eman al-Nafjan and Loujain al-Hathloul (Photo via Twitter) More than 120 members of the European Parliament have denounced the ongoing persecution of Saudi women human rights defenders by the Riyadh regime, saying the activists freed from prison still face rights violations and harsh restrictions in the kingdom...

A file photo taken on March 15, 2021 shows former government staffer Brittany Higgins, who alleged publicly that she had been raped by a colleague in a minister’s office in 2019, speaking before protesters during a rally against sexual violence and gender inequality in front of Parliament House in Australia’s capital city Canberra...

The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) and the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) on Monday jointly declared their support for the country’s Republic system, the Constitution, freedom of expression, women’s rights and government’s security forces...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called on MPs on Monday to use their contacts and mobilize the people to stand against the Taliban...

First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Tuesday that various elections will be held across the country in summer, including the long overdue Ghazni parliamentary elections as well as provincial council, district council and municipal elections...

Members of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) have rejected the proposed budget for the new fiscal year 1400 for the second time...

The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Saturday voted in favor of 10 nominated ministers, including those for defense, interior, and foreign affairs...

Maryam Pougetoux, the spokesperson of the National Union of Students in France (AFP file photo) A lawmaker from the ruling party of French President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of racism after she led a walkout at the country’s national assembly in protest at the presence of a Muslim student union representative wearing a headscarf...

This file pictures shows a view of the European Parliament in session...

Nadia Whittome MP © members.parliament...

The acting governor of the Central Bank, Ajmal Ahmadi, was referred to the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) on Sunday by a senate commission...

This handout picture released and taken by the Iraqi parliament’s press office early on May 7, 2020 shows a general view of members of parliament respecting social distancing during an overnight session in parliament in Baghdad...

Members of Turkish Parliament wearing face masks as a precaution against the novel coronavirus arrive to attend the general assembly meeting of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in Ankara, Turkey, on April 7, 2020...

Iran’s Parliament speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf delivers a speech at the chamber in Tehran on May 31, 2020...

French Education and Youth Affairs Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer (C-L), French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (C), and French Junior Minister of Relations with the Parliament Marc Fesneau (C-R) take part in a session of questions to the government, at the National Assembly in Paris, France, on May 19, 2020...

A countless number of businesses in the EU depend on tourism and the sector accounts for a big proportion of some nations’ entire economic activity...

President Ashraf Ghani, addressing a ceremony on the second anniversary of the 17th National Assembly, said as head of state he does not want any of the detainees in question imprisoned, but he said there is a need for a transparent mechanism to release the Taliban prisoners - as part of a peace deal between the US and the Taliban...

Ayatollah Khamenei votes at a polling station in Tehran, Feb...

An officer escorts a woman to a police car during an opposition rally in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 12, 2019...

This file photo shows Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev casting his ballot at a polling station during presidential elections in Baku, Azerbaijan, on April 11, 2018...

Iranians are going to the polls in the parliamentary elections on February 21...

The Afghan parliament on Wednesday approved the coming fiscal year’s budget plan...

A number of lawmakers on Tuesday insisted that the new elected House Speaker should start his job in order to end the ongoing impasse in the lower house of parliament...

Some lawmakers on Monday said that the parliament impasse has damaged the Afghan parliament prestige at the national and international levels...

The lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of the Parliament, on Sunday divided over accepting the new Speaker Mir Rahman Rahmani who was declared winner after a voting session on Saturday...

The verdicts of two primary courts are yet to be implemented on two new lawmakers in the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of the Parliament, who have been sentenced to prison on graft charges...

Afghan lawmakers on Thursday put ballot boxes to elect the Speaker of the House but none of the candidates were able to obtain over a half of the votes cast...

Afghans from different parts of the country said they are ready to vote in the parliamentary elections despite challenges...

Members of the Chinese Parliament have passed a constitutional amendment that removes the presidential term limit and allows China’s incumbent President Xi Jinping to potentially remain in office indefinitely...

The Afghanistanian lawmakers in the Lower House of the Parliament, Wolesi Jirga, on Sunday elected the first deputy house speaker during a voting organized by the administrative delegation of the parliament...

Humayun Humayun, a member of parliament’s Lower House on Saturday claimed that some “corrupt” figures in the National Unity Government provoke schism among ethnic groups and seek to fragmentize the country...

After a winter break, President Ashraf Ghani will officially inaugurate the National Assembly on Wednesday...

The Wolesi Jirga's (Lower House of Parliament) administrative board on Saturday accused President Ashraf Ghani of inability to lead the country and said he has an autocratic behavior towards the parliament...

Lawmakers in Afghanistan parliament on Wednesday raised the alarm over what they called an increase in Daesh activities in some strategic eastern provinces of the country...

Lawmaker in the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) on Wednesday said the growing tension between the Presidential Palace and Jamiat-e-Islami party will have serious repercussions for the country if the problem is not sorted out...

The Afghan government has dismissed reports suggesting President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has warned to disband the Afghan parliament...