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 2019
ICC Update
An overview of the International Criminal Court's active work in mid 2019: ten preliminary examinations, eleven situations under investigation, and 26 cases involving 42 defendants. The update summarizes the status of proceedings across situations including Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Kenya, Mali, and Uganda.
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December 2023
Toward the Summit of the Future: Building the UN We Need
The Summit of the Future, set for September 2024, aims to forge a new international consensus on delivering a better present and safeguarding the future. Civil society organizations, including C4UN, are galvanizing global participation to provide input on this critical milestone.
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December 2023
How a World Federation Can Respect and Protect LGBTQI+ Rights
World federalism advocates for universal human rights, but the current international human rights treaties reflect outdated political and social realities. Addressing evolving social and political realities, such as the struggles of LGBTQI+ persons, is crucial for effective global governance.
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December 2023
The Peacemakers: India’s Quest for One World
Historian Manu Bhagavan's The Peacemakers explores how Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit shaped India's independence struggle and early foreign policy around a vision of democratic world government and human rights. Bhagavan challenges the assumption that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights derives primarily from Cold War American influence, arguing instead that India steered the creation of two separate rights covenants.
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December 2023
Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age
Allen Pietrobon's biography of Norman Cousins chronicles how the Saturday Review editor shaped Cold War peace advocacy through a network spanning Nikita Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, and John F. Kennedy, leading United World Federalists and co-founding the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Cousins brokered the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and dedicated decades to ending the wars in Vietnam and Biafra while arguing that nuclear weapons made world government a necessity.
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December 2023
Climate Change Lawsuits Around the World
Climate change litigation is exploding globally, with thousands of lawsuits seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These legal actions, often relying on human rights law, aim to force corporations and nation-states to adopt more stringent environmental measures.
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December 2023
The United States Should Ratify the Rome Statute
Ambassador David Scheffer argues that the United States must ratify the Rome Statute, ending the archaic 'immunity interpretation.' He asserts that after three decades of development in international criminal law, non-party states cannot evade accountability for atrocity crimes.
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December 2023
In Defense of an Idealist Approach to UN Reform
World Federalists advocate for fundamental changes to the UN system, arguing that the Security Council's structure is inherently undemocratic. The article details how the veto power of the P5 members stifles global progress, preventing effective world policy from coming to fruition.
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December 2023
UN Reform: Three Paths Forward
The article examines the state of global governance, noting that the international order's pillars are rapidly deteriorating. It proposes three viable paths forward: recommitting to the current system, pursuing deeper reforms, or finding alternative solutions.
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December 2023
International Poll: Public Supports a World Parliament and World Law
A YouGov survey of 13 countries found that a majority of the public supports the creation of a world parliament. This poll confirms broad public endorsement for a global democracy empowered to address global challenges.
