Taken right outside the Parliament House in Maputo.

The Parliament of Jamaica is bicameral, consisting of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and the Senate (Upper House).

The National Assembly () is the lower house of the Parliament of Senegal.

I doubt if a woman in a burqa has ever entered Parliament House.

The portrait by William Gush was painted for the Parliament House, Halifax, Nova Scotia and hangs to this day in Province House, Halifax.

History In 1923 a competition was held to choose a site for a new Parliament House.

The Committee invites the State party to consider adopting affirmative action programmes to improve the political representation of Travellers, particularly at the level of Dáil Eireann (Lower House of Parliament) and or Seanad Eireann (Upper House of Parliament (Senate)).

Whitlam agreed, and a meeting was set for 9 am on Tuesday 11 November, at Parliament House.

The new building, now called the Old Parliament House, was completed to designs by French architect François Boulanger.

When a bill is introduced into Parliament it goes through many stages, both in the House of Lords, where I sit, and in the House of Commons.

This Parliament consisted of the King of Ireland, who was the same person as the King of England, a House of the Lords and a House of Commons.

Provision is made under the Anti Terrorism Bill, 2004, which is being debated in the Upper House of Parliament.

The European Parliament s Socialist Group, the UK s House of Commons, and the Australian parliament have all investigated these private funds.

The seat of the Riksdag is at Parliament House (), on the island of Helgeandsholmen in the central parts of Stockholm.

The Speaker of the House of Parliament also met with the mission. The matter of the scheduled elections was discussed.

Draft amendments to existing legislation were proposed in Nepal and a revised bill tabled in the lower house of parliament.

The new Afghan Constitution guaranteed Afghan women a minimum of 25 per cent of the seats in the Lower House of Parliament and approximately 17 per cent in the Upper House.

With the TRT capturing over 75 of the seats in the lower house of parliament, Thaksin is now politically invincible at home.

NEW YORK In March 1936, Poland s Sejm (the lower house of parliament) almost succeeded in outlawing shechita (slaughter according to Jewish law).

This week's House of Representatives parliament sessions in Amman, Jordan, have been the center of public discontent, especially among the youth community.

The parish is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of North East Cambridgeshire.

One Member of Parliament (MP), Badruddin bin Amiruldin, has stated in the Dewan Rakyat house of Parliament that Malaysia ini negara Islam ( Malaysia is an Islamic state ) and that you tidak suka, you keluar dari Malaysia!

Elections for the Shura Council, the upper house of the Egyptian parliament, were held in Egypt on 1 June and 8 June 2010.

The British architect Norman Foster has just been given the responsibility of designing in Berlin the new parliament house for a united Germany.

Moving from one high office in the Kremlin to another in the White House (the seat of the Russian Parliament) is merely a technicality.

Similarly, in India the members of the lower house of Parliament together with weighted votes from the state parliaments elect the head of state.

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The new Constitution of Afghanistan guarantees women 27 per cent, or 68 seats, of seats in the Lower House and 50 per cent of appointments made by the President to the Upper House of the Parliament.

Currently the lower house of the Spanish Parliament is debating a proposal to prohibit the wearing of body covering burqas and face covering niqabs in all public spaces in Spain, and the French parliament approved a ban on face veils.

All cabinet members must resign from parliament, as the constitution does not allow a cabinet member to hold a seat in the House of Representatives.

The number of women in the Australian Parliament is the highest it has ever been (27 Senators and 37 women in the House of Representatives).

See also Bandargate scandal Human rights in Bahrain Bahraini uprising (2011 present) References External links Kingdom of Bahrain eGovernment Portal Chamber of Deputies (Lower house of parliament) Shura Council (Upper house of parliament) Bahrain's private sector opens the door to political participation, Daily Star (Beirut), 22 February 2006 Generational change and elite driven reforms in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The House of Commons of Canada () is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

Functions The House of Representatives is the main chamber of parliament, where discussion of proposed legislation and review of the actions of the cabinet takes place.

The Constitution also sets a quota for Afghan women's representation in Parliament and guarantees them 50 per cent of the presidential appointments to the Upper House.

Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher, so that was a dramatic change, as have been the number of women Members of Parliament in the House of Commons.

Europe s Paradoxical Parliament

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In the Parliament of the Federation, at least 4 members of a constitutive people must be represented in the House of Representatives, which consists of 98 representatives.

At 64, the number of women in the Australian Commonwealth Parliament is the highest it has ever been (27 Senators and 37 in the House of Representatives).

I am pleased to note that the Argentine parliament approved the safeguards agreement last year, and the Lower House of the Brazilian Congress has recently approved it.