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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Human rights violations in Libya and the International Criminal Court
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Libya’s migrant crisis highlights systemic human rights abuses. The ICC’s jurisdiction over crimes against humanity underscores global governance failures.
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European Federalism: objectives for the near future and collaboration with the WFM
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
National vetoes still hold the EU back from a fiscal union, a humane common asylum policy and a stronger defence. A constitutional convention could remove them, and European federalists should back a UN Parliamentary Assembly alongside world federalists.
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COPLA Update Regional governments agree to study proposed criminal court
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Regional justice and security ministers have agreed to study a criminal court against organized crime, in a region with about a third of the world’s murders but 9% of its people. Over 3,000 signatories and 40 institutions already back the proposal.
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Canada should support “No First Use” of nuclear weapons
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Holding the option to launch a nuclear attack before being attacked fuels an arms race no one can win. Canada should press NATO to keep its arsenal for deterring nuclear attack only and to remove US bombs from host states, opening the way to join the ban treaty.
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Canada and the situation in Mali
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Canada’s role in Mali’s conflict highlights global governance challenges. The article explores peacekeeping, regional security, and international interests in a complex crisis.
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TakeAction for June 2018: Canada’s priorities to advance the Responsibility to Protect
World Federalist Movement – Canada · June 2018
Canada’s June 2018 UN debate on R2P highlights global governance priorities. The article critiques Canada’s limited R2P implementation in Myanmar.
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Canada and peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · June 2018
Canada deploys 250 peacekeepers to Mali amid questions about its UN mission commitment. The WFMC campaign calls for increased support of UN peace operations.
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UN2020: Preparing the UN2020 Summit
World Federalist Movement – Canada · May 2018
Core principles for renewing the UN system and a Call to Action are on offer from UN2020, a campaign run by CIVICUS, the Stimson Center, the Workable World Trust and WFM-IGP, as General Assembly co-chairs table a zero draft resolution.
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TakeAction: Building the Responsibility to Protect
World Federalist Movement – Canada · May 2018
The Rohingya crisis highlights the need for R2P implementation. Canada advocates for stronger international action on Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing.
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Canada’s newly released Strategy to Respond to the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh
World Federalist Movement – Canada · May 2018
Ottawa’s Rohingya strategy commits $300 million over three years, but Canada’s world federalists question whether engaging the Myanmar government will help and regret that the Responsibility to Protect is left out entirely.
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UN HRC Expert calls for Parliamentary Assembly
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2018
Alfred de Zayas calls for a World Parliamentary Assembly to address democracy deficits. The proposal gains global support from over 1,500 parliamentarians.
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Remembering Nita Dunn
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2018
Nita Dunn outlived doctors’ early estimates and often chose her own treatment; her family is holding no public service and asks friends to give to the World Federalist Foundation or share a good meal.
