Provisional World Parliament

Provisional World Parliament Sessions

The World Government Movement. A substantive history of the overall world government movement goes back almost one hundred years. Understanding of the history of the overall world government movement helps in the understanding of the substantive history of the Provisional World Parliament, which goes back only about forty years.

Some historical lessons of the overall world government movement are on the Internet. A few notable leaders include Rosika Schwimmer (the first woman ambassador in the modern age, serving Hungary in Switzerland); Emery Reves, who wrote Anatomy of Peace; Albert Einstein, who campaigned the last ten years of his life for world government (not for the United Nations); Garry Davis, who created (and still creates) certain legal and service foundations for World Government; and hundreds of other eminent thinkers of the era.

After the Montreux Conference of 1947 and the University of Chicago Committee to Frame a World Constitution in 1948, many eminent thinkers were convinced of the necessity for a constitutional basis for the creation of any initial world parliamentary system.

Provisional World Parliaments under the Earth Constitution. The Provisional World Parliaments have emerged interspersed with sessions of the World Constituent Assembly, which is for drafting and improving the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. The Earth Constitution defines the basic structure and operation for provisional world government, world government and the Provisional World Parliament.

Brief History :

Provisional World Parliament Sessions (First to Fifteenth)

First Session of PWP

1982. First Session of Provisional World Parliament meets at Brighton, England. Delegates form 25 countries of 6 continents. Five world Legislative Acts are adopted: for World Disarmament Agency, World Economic Development, Ownership of Oceans & Sea-beds, Graduate School of World Problems, and World Courts.

First Constituent Assembly, Interlaken, Switzerland, 1968, photo courtesy Marjorie Ewbank

Second Session of PWP

1985. Second Session of Provisional World Parliament held New Delhi, India. Opened by President of India, presided by speaker of Lok Sabha. Three more World Legislative Acts adopted: for Emergency Earth Rescue Administration, World Government Funding, and Commission on Terrorism.

Third Session of PWP

1987. Third session of Provisional World Parliament held Miami Beach, Florida. Three more World Legislative Acts are adopted: for Global Finance System, Environment Protection, and Hydrogen Energy. Provisional World Cabinet begun.

Fourth Session of PWP

1996. The Fourth Session of the Provisional World Parliament held at Barcelona, Spain in September. A number of resolutions passed as well as a "Manifesto" declaring the oceans the property of the people of Earth under the authority of the Earth Constitution.

Fifth Session of PWP

2000. The Fifth Session of the Provisional World Parliament is held on the Island of Malta, November 22nd to 27th. One Omnibus legislative act and a number of resolutions passed.

Sixth Session of PWP

2003. The Sixth Session of the Provisional World Parliament held in Bangkok, Thailand, March 23rd to 28th. Several important legislative acts passed: a World Peace Act, a World Security Act, a Provisional Office of World Revenue Act, a Hydrocarbon Resource Act, and a Statute for the World Court on Human Rights. The Commission for Legislative Review is formed. Parliamentary law format commences with the Sixth Session.

Seventh Session of PWP

2003. The Seventh Session of the Provisional World Parliament is held at Chennai, India, December 23-29. Several important legislative acts passed: a Criminal Penalty Code, Rules for Procedure and Evidence, a World Bench for Criminal Cases Act, a World Patents Act, a Global Accounting and Auditing Standards Act, and a Preservation of World Government Records Act. The Manifesto of the Earth Federation (Chapter Three above) and the "Pledge of Allegiance to the Earth Constitution" (part of Chapter Seven above) are unamimously ratified by the Parliament.

Eighth Session of PWP

2004. The Eighth Session of the Provisional World Parliament held at Lucknow, India in August. Several important legislative acts passed, including creation of a World Bench for Juvenile Cases, a Child Rights Act, an Elections Act, and a Water Act. The International Criminal Court in the Hague is empowered by world legislation. A global Education Act is passed as well as a World Economic Equity Act establishing the Earth Currency on an independent and fully democratic basis. A Global People's Assembly is created to activate grass roots participation in the House of Peoples. The "Declaration on the Rights of Peoples" (part of Chapter Two above) is unanimously ratified.

Nineth Session of PWP

2006 Ninth Session of the Provisional World Parliament to be held in Libya, Africa, February-March, 2006.

Tenth Session of PWP

2007. The Tenth Session of the Provisional World Parliament held in Kara, Togo in June. Four world legislative acts are passed: an act prohibiting unauthorized destruction of illegal financial instruments, an act creating a system of divestment from illegal weapons manufacture, an act requiring posting of the world illegal stock law in stock exchanges around the world, and an act providing a guaranteed annual income for all adults within the Earth Federation.

Eleventh Session of PWP

2009. The Eleventh Session of the Provisional World Parliament held in Nainital, India , July 2-8, 2009. Several world legislative acts were passed into provisional world law , including a procedure for the dismantling of nuclear weapons , a law protecting the people of Earth from too much bureaucracy in the world government , an act criminalizing human trafficking for sexual or other purposes, an act abolishing all secret intelligence agencies like the CIA, M5 or Mossad, a bill elaborating the restrictions on the military uses of depleted uranium, and a law protecting the right of civil disobedience for the people of Earth under the Earth Federation (included in this volume) . The delegation from Bangladesh presented the parliament with a new translation of the Constitution into its 23rd language: Bengali or Bangla .

Twelveth Session of PWP

2011. December-January. The Twelfth Session of the Provisional World Parliament takes place in Kolkata, India. The Parliament meets within the context of the giant World Peace Thinkers and Poets Meet Conference sponsored by the World Constitution (WCPA), the International Society for Intercultural Study and Research (ISISAR), and other organizations.

Thirteenth Session of PWP

2013. December 19-21, Lucknow, India. The Thirteenth Session of the Provisional World Parliament took place simultaneously with the International Conference of Chief Justices of the World at the World Unity Convention Center of the City Montessori School of Lucknow. A number of key world legislative acts were passed, including a Transition Act to facilitate countries joining the Earth Federation and a Truth and Reconciliation Act.

Fourteenth Session of PWP

2015. Work continues on the development of the 14th session of the Parliament in Kolkata, India, December 2015. Work also continues on the promotion of the Earth Constitution as a subject of study and a item in the educational curriculum of institutions everywhere. Work continues on the development of the Collegium of World Judges and the constitution of a bench of the World Supreme Court.