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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World Federalist Listening
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2019
The World Federalist Movement - Canada highlights key podcasts on global governance. These programs cover international affairs, UN operations, and human rights issues.
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UN2020: Two steps forward …
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2019
A consensus resolution already fixes a Leaders Summit on 21 September 2020, a youth plenary and an outcome document for the UN’s 75th, and Secretary-General Guterres is staking the anniversary on repairing multilateralism.
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TakeAction: Building international justice
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2019
The International Criminal Court prosecutes war crimes in the DRC. Canada should ratify the Kampala amendments on the crime of aggression.
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Canada and peacekeeping update
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2019
Canada’s Mali mission ends 31 July 2019 even though the UN Department of Peace Operations asked for its air task force to stay on; the update also explains why Canadian and UN personnel counts differ.
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Canada can do more to support the Rohingya
World Federalist Movement – Canada · June 2019
Beyond an envoy and close to $100 million in aid, Canada can bring Myanmar before the International Court of Justice, as a cross-party group of parliamentarians has asked its foreign minister to do.
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Introducing Dr Tawanda Hondora
June 2019
Major powers that use the Security Council for their own ends are feeding wars from Yemen to Libya. Civil society, working in national capitals and enlisting business and young people, must defend the ICC and push to reform global institutions.
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Fernando Iglesias highlights Japan Congress
June 2019
Brexit, trade frictions and abandoned arms agreements have put multilateralism in retreat, so federalists must press for a UN Parliamentary Assembly and a Latin American court against organised crime. Twenty-first century technology cannot be governed by nineteenth century institutions.
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In Memoriam: Takeshi Akune
June 2019
Takeshi Akune’s most recent campaign, a petition against land reclamation at Henoko, Okinawa, drew over 210,000 signatures, including that of Queen guitarist Brian May.
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ICC Update
June 2019
International justice moves unevenly: the ICC acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba and Laurent Gbagbo, convicted Bosco Ntaganda, still waits on suspects at large in Darfur, Libya and Uganda, and lost the Philippines from the Rome Statute.
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Global Problems Need Global Solutions
June 2019
Climate change and cyber security cannot be left to states acting alone. A federal order that keeps decisions as low as possible and holds power to account is the credible answer, and the International Criminal Court and the push for a UN parliament show it taking shape.
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In Memoriam: John Sutter
June 2019
John Sutter, who died in March 2019 at age 93, spent decades after a career in the U.S. Foreign Service and The Asia Foundation promoting democratic international institutions through the World Federalist Association, Democratic World Federalists, and the World Federalist Movement. He was the driving force behind world federalist newsletters in Northern California and a key organizer of the 1995 WFM World Congress in San Francisco, held to mark the 50th anniversary of the UN Charter.
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Bill Pace Farewell Q&A
June 2019
Bill Pace, outgoing Executive Director of the World Federalist Movement, reflects in a farewell interview on 25 years leading an organization that grew from a small Amsterdam office into a network of over 2,500 member organizations in more than 150 countries. He calls the creation of the International Criminal Court the movement’s most significant milestone and names former ICC President Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi and Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz among his most inspiring collaborators.
