About COPA

COPA was created in 1997 on the initiative of the National Assembly of Québec. It brings together the Congresses and Parliamentary Assemblies of the unitary, federal, federated and associated States, the regional parliaments and the parliamentary organizations of the Americas. Its main objective is to help strengthen parliamentary democracy and to build a community of the Americas founded on respect for dignity and human rights, peace, democracy, solidarity between peoples, social justice and gender equality.

Its objectives are, among others:

• to represent, to the executive authorities of the Americas , the interests and aspirations of the populations of the hemisphere with regard to the issues and impacts of the hemispheric integration process;
• to develop and strengthen parliamentary means of action in the context of the hemispheric integration process and of globalization;
• to create a new synergy between the legislative leaders of the different parliamentary assemblies, regional Parliaments and interparliamentary organizations of the Americas.

COPA website