Parliamentarians from around the world convened in Ottawa, Canada on June 10-11, 2010 at the Sixth Annual Global Parliamentarians’ Summit to re-examine the role of parliamentarians in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) . The summit, which took as its theme Balancing the Scales of Women’s Lives in the Countdown to 2015, continued a tradition of parallel parliamentary meetings on international development commitments that have preceded the annual G-8 summits since 2005.