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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New book about the United Nations
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2018
A new book launches in Ottawa exploring UN reform and future directions. The work examines the UN’s evolution and potential for innovation in global governance.
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World Federalist Reading (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
Four books explore UN reform, global peace through law, federalism as a political theory, and war crimes prosecution. The selections highlight key themes in global governance and world federalism.
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Update from the ICRtoP: recent developments on the Responsibility to Protect at the United Nations (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The UN General Assembly included Responsibility to Protect on its formal agenda. This marks progress for mainstreaming the norm within the UN system.
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Update: The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
Endorsements for a UN Parliamentary Assembly passed 1,500 legislators in 2017, with fresh backing from the Pan-African Parliament, the European Parliament and others. The UN’s 75th anniversary in 2020 is seen as the moment to put it on the agenda.
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Restoring Faith in the UN (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The UN General Assembly invoked the Uniting for Peace resolution to address Syria’s chemical attacks. The mechanism allows action when the Security Council is blocked by veto power.
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The proposal for a Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court against Transnational Organized Crime reaches the United Nations General Assembly (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
Argentina’s vice president has taken a proposed regional criminal court against organized crime to the UN General Assembly. The world’s most violent region, with a homicide rate four times the global average, needs cooperation that national governments acting alone cannot provide.
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The Prevention Up Front Alliance: Strengthening civil society capacity to prevent armed conflict (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The Prevention Up Front Alliance advances conflict prevention through civil society. The alliance links GPPAC, CICC, and ICRtoP with the Netherlands government.
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Our planet needs a strong government (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
Summits like the G20 and COP21 achieve little because they rest on the sovereign will of states with no enforcement. Only a UN turned into a true world government, with real power and armed forces, and no Security Council veto, can protect the planet.
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Migration, refugees and the need for global governance reforms (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
With more than 65 million people displaced, the post-war refugee system, funded by donor pledges and resting on outdated conventions, no longer works. Ten neighbouring countries host 90% of refugees, and a stronger multilateralism is needed to share the burden.
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ICC Update (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The International Criminal Court continues its investigations into multiple conflicts. Key cases in Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo remain under judicial review.
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ICC activates jurisdiction over crime of aggression (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
After years of negotiation, states parties agreed to activate the International Criminal Court’s power to prosecute aggression, but on narrower terms than many wanted: the amendments bind only states that have accepted them. Campaigners still called it historic.
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Democracy Without Borders: A new approach towards world federalism (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly advances global democracy through federalist reform. A UN Parliamentary Assembly is seen as a tool for long-term democratization and integration.
