All Mondial articles
Every article from the Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement – Canada journal, alongside selected writing from allied organisations, searchable and cross-referenced by topic, issue and source.
Articles
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Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour
World Federalist Movement · June 2022
Children who marched to Geneva in 1998 helped win an ILO convention against the worst child labour, now ratified by 165 states. Yet some 200 million children still work, many in debt bondage in South Asia, where the laws go unenforced.
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Mondial Interviews Amy Oloo, Incoming Executive Director of WFM-IGP
June 2022
Mondial interviews Amy Oloo, incoming Executive Director of WFM-IGP, on her priorities for the organization, which include rebuilding programs and finances after a period of institutional transition, centering youth and Global South voices, and pursuing pragmatic partnerships with other global governance NGOs. Oloo identifies UN Security Council reform as overdue but structurally difficult, and favors both improving existing institutions and building new, more inclusive ones.
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Ending the Race to the Bottom on Corporate Taxation
June 2022
The OECD, responsible for 94% of global economic activity, has agreed to a global minimum tax. This concept requires all large corporations to be taxed at a minimum rate of 15%, ensuring that income is taxed where it is actually earned.
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Democracy in Decline?
June 2022
Freedom may have slipped since 2006, but the century-long record is hopeful: elected republics have grown from one in 1900 to a majority today. Democracy has always taken generations to grow, so the West should not rush Russia or China or turn the word into a weapon.
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Make Peace Possible With a United Nations Emergency Peace Service
June 2022
A standing UN service of about 13,500 civilians, police and soldiers, ready to deploy within days, could stop crises before they spread. At roughly $1.5 billion a year shared among all members, it would pay for itself by sparing later, larger operations.
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It’s Time to End the Suffering
June 2022
Ukraine’s war has spread hunger, inflation and nuclear danger across the globe, proof that nations share one fate. The answer is a collective security pact capping national arms, enforced by a standing international force under an elected world legislature.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World’s Future
June 2022
Nine more ratifications, broad public support and investor divestment marked the nuclear ban treaty’s first year, while all nine nuclear powers rejected it and raced to build new weapons. Only mass public pressure is likely to make them accept it.
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An Unusual Relationship: World Federalism and National Populism
June 2022
National populist movements view the nation-state’s sovereignty as sacred and absolute, rejecting any other political unit’s representation. Both world federalists and populists criticize current international institutions for being insufficiently democratic or efficient.
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The Birth of Citizens for Global Solutions: Recalling Our Beginnings on the Occasion of Our 75th Anniversary
June 2022
The birth of the United World Federalists in 1947 marked a pivotal moment in global peace efforts. The organization, now Citizens for Global Solutions, has since worked on major campaigns, including the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
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War Crimes Are a Feature of the War System
June 2022
Russia is not the only offender: atrocities follow wherever nations must arm to survive in a world without enforceable law. Until a legal system compels countries to settle disputes peacefully, those who commit war crimes will keep escaping justice.
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Should we care about Biodiversity?
World Federalist Movement · May 2022
The Convention on Biological Diversity addresses global biodiversity loss. The article highlights its role in conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources.
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This tangled web we have woven: why countries go to war
World Federalist Movement · May 2022
Wars are won by the side that can outproduce its enemy, and conquest has mostly been about resources. Ukraine’s grain and critical minerals raise the stakes, while seizures and broken deals will leave Russia a pariah for as long as Putin rules.
