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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Our Common Agenda: Secretary-General provides signposts for a stronger UN
September 2021
António Guterres’s plan for a stronger UN leaves the Charter untouched, yet many of its 90 proposals would still change global politics deeply. Most governments welcomed it, Russia and China held back, and states must now decide what to adopt.
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ICC Update
September 2021
This update provides status reports on several major international criminal cases, including those concerning Côte d’Ivoire, Darfur, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It details ongoing investigations and preliminary examinations in multiple regions, such as Georgia, Libya, and Kenya.
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The Glasgow Climate Conference: What lessons will we learn?
September 2021
Paris Agreement pledges would trim emissions yet still allow about 2.7°C of warming, because each country writes its own promise and none is bound to keep it. Glasgow will test whether a treaty built on pledges can be enough.
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TakeAction for August 2021: National Peacekeepers Day and Canada’s UN Peacekeeping Commitments
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2021
Canada’s UN peacekeeping contribution ranks 68th globally. The WFMC Canadians for Peacekeeping campaign urges increased federal support for UN missions.
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World Federalism – A Mantra or a Pathway
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
World government will never happen, yet world federalism remains a useful framework. The movement should stop debating the end product and build coalitions around concrete goals such as pandemics, artificial intelligence and a nuclear-weapon-free Northeast Asia, as it did for the International Criminal Court.
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Nigerian Victims Deserve More Than Hibernated ICC Investigations – They Deserve Justice
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Victims of Boko Haram and security-force abuses have little prospect of justice in Nigerian courts, writes Benson Chinedu Olugbuo, so shelving an ICC investigation for lack of resources would leave them nowhere to turn.
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Further Delays Will Prevent the ICC from Righting Its Wrongs in Afghanistan
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Afghanistan’s ICC investigation faces prolonged delays and political interference. The ICC’s credibility is undermined by U.S. opposition and slow OTP proceedings.
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Hibernations Must Not Curtail the ICC’s Investigation in the Situation in Palestine
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Al-Haq’s Susan Power argues that the ICC prosecutor has no clear criteria for shelving cases, and that stalling the Palestine inquiry, already examined by ten commissions, would deny justice.
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Green Energy and Sacrifice Zones: Ecocide?
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Mega-dams and vast solar parks have flooded forests and displaced Indigenous communities from the Amazon to Mexico and the Philippines. A law against ecocide could deter such projects, but only if it is drafted so that harm cannot be greenwashed and clean power is not stalled.
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Delays in Initiating an ICC Investigation in Ukraine Leave Victims in Limbo
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Victims in Ukraine wait in limbo: the ICC found the criteria for an investigation met in December 2020 but no authorisation has been sought. With domestic justice unlikely, delay risks lost evidence and fleeing perpetrators, and erodes faith in international justice.
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Delayed Investigations in Côte d’Ivoire Undermine Confidence in the ICC
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
Years of one-sided prosecutions and a 2018 amnesty have eroded Ivorian victims’ trust in the Court, writes Ali Ouatarra, who calls on the ICC to finish its second investigation quickly and fund it fully.
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Human Rights and Climate Change
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2021
Despite strong opposition from Russia, China and others, a growing number of states back a UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change; the Council’s 2021 resolution only encourages further discussion of the post.
