IPU founder from Magoslliget
Magoslliget (Hungary) had not had this many visitors for quite some time: the descendants of Dr. Viktor Hagara, a jurist, politician, prefect, deputy and publicist, visited this small border village ... According to László Kovács, the Secretary of the Hungarian National Group at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the inhabitants found out that Viktor Hagara was a founding member of the IPU, the world organisation of parliaments. "We just recently discovered, thanks to a French source, that the Hungarian participant at the founding meeting of the IPU was Dr. Viktor Hagara. The IPU held its first session in Paris on 29 and 30 June 1889, and among the representatives from the nine countries was the Hungarian deputy, Victor Hagara…. That is how we found out that he was from one of Magoslliget's noble families whose ancestors too had been famous."
Eastern Hungary – 24 June 2004

Páez proposes drafting a parliamentary code of ethics
Senator Sergio Páez Verdugo, the President of the IPU, explained that "many of our countries are now confronted with problems of corruption, and as elected representatives of citizens, we cannot be aloof to these situations, which can be extremely detrimental to democracies". The corruption scandals that have affected the Latin American countries in recent years have moved this issue beyond national boundaries; it is now a subject raised at international parliamentary meetings. According to the IPU President, it is necessary to draw up a code of ethics or of moral conduct for all the parliamentarians of the Americas "in order to improve the image of parliamentarians as people at the service of society".
El Mostrador.cl (Chile) – 11 September 2004

IPU concerned about Zardari detention
Islamabad. The Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has expressed concern over the injustices done by the Pakistani authorities on Senator Asif Ali Zardari and urged the government either to conclude proceedings against him without further delay or to close them...
Daily Times (Pakistan) – 24 August 2004

Limiting the role of women weakens our societies
The regional seminar for Arab parliaments on parliament and the budgetary process, especially from the gender perspective was inaugurated by Mr. Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese National Assembly and President of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union. This event, organised by the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Inter- Parliamentary Union, the Lebanese National Assembly and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), included the participation of 22 Arab delegations and a number of delegates representing other parliaments, UNDP, the IPU and the World Bank.

In his inaugural address, Mr. Berri spoke about the role of women in societies and in politics. He said that Arab societies were half paralysed and hampered in their development because of limitations on the role of women. Arab patriarchal society was still reluctant to give women equal rights in the political, economic, social and cultural fields.
Al Safir (Lebanon) - 23 June 2004