All Mondial articles
Every article from the Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement – Canada journal, searchable and cross-referenced by topic and issue.
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June 2020
Coronavirus: Only public powers can protect our health
The coronavirus pandemic highlighted global deficiencies, demonstrating that no single nation can manage a crisis alone. The article argues that global coordination is necessary and that public powers, not market mechanisms, must manage essential services like healthcare.
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June 2019
Challenging times for the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court faces simultaneous pressure from U.S. government threats, the controversial acquittal of Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Ble Goude, the Philippines withdrawal from the Rome Statute, and a Pre-Trial Chamber rejection of an Afghanistan investigation that outraged civil society. The Court also addresses Jordan's failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and prepares to elect a new Chief Prosecutor in 2020.
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June 2019
The United Nations as a Values-based Community
The United Nations, often dismissed as a paper-producing body with no enforcement power, functions most valuably as a global town meeting where a shared moral language and consensus on universal values are forged through ongoing deliberation among all nations. Drawing on Jan Pronk's concept of the UN as a values-based community, the author argues that this deliberative process is the organization's core strength and the foundation for legitimate global decision-making.
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June 2019
“Modalities resolution” highlights UN2020 campaign
The UN General Assembly's adoption of resolution A/RES/73/299 sets the organizational framework for the UN's 75th anniversary in 2020, establishing a Leaders Summit, a political declaration, and a Secretary-General-led global dialogue under the theme 'The future we want, the United Nations we need.' The World Federalist Movement-convened UN2020 Initiative shaped the resolution, though civil society groups secured a more limited role than they sought after opposition from Russia, China, and members of the Non-Aligned group.
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June 2019
COPLA Update
The COPLA campaign, launched by Argentine NGO Democracia Global, advocates for a Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court to prosecute transnational organized crime leaders and confiscate their assets, drawing on the Palermo Convention as its legal basis. The initiative has secured resolutions from Argentina's Congress, support from the Mercosur Parliament, and endorsements from President Mauricio Macri and Vice President Gabriela Michetti at the UN General Assembly.
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June 2019
ICRtoP Update
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect advances atrocity prevention by linking the R2P norm to gender equality, hosting side events at the Commission on the Status of Women and the UN Security Council debate on protection of civilians. New UN Special Adviser on R2P Karen Smith, appointed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in December 2018, takes responsibility for developing the norm across the UN system.
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June 2019
Union of European Federalists Focuses on Elections
The Union of European Federalists releases a 2019 manifesto calling for European Refoundation, proposing a Eurozone Budget and Treasury, a Banking Union, an Unemployment Insurance Scheme, and a European Bank for Climate to counter nationalist and anti-democratic forces threatening EU structures. The manifesto argues that while European markets have integrated, convergence of member state economies remains incomplete and requires further institutional development.
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June 2019
Towards the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
The 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, adopted by 189 governments in 1995 across twelve critical areas for women's advancement, drives a 2019 to 2020 cycle of national reviews, regional commission meetings, and a Commission on the Status of Women appraisal scheduled for March 2020. The process culminates in a September 2020 high-level General Assembly meeting aimed at setting ambitious implementation goals tied to the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
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June 2019
The Right to Peace: A Political Approach
The 2016 UN General Assembly Declaration on the Right to Peace passed over the opposition of Western states including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, carried by Latin American, African, and Asian countries. Douglas Roche argues that a culture of peace must be elevated into a legally recognized human right if the prevailing culture of war is to be overcome.
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June 2019
Reimagining Your United Nations through Model UN (MUN)
The Workable World Trust uses Model United Nations conferences to introduce Joe Schwartzberg's Security Council reform proposal, which replaces the five-member veto system with 12 regional blocs and weighted voting across all 193 UN member states. A pilot at Mexico City's MIMUN 2019 found that students debating under the reform model produced a unanimous resolution, while reverting to traditional rules saw P5 veto power block the same measure.
