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2024 Summit of the Future: What It Is, Why It Matters & How You Can Contribute
June 2024
World leaders meeting in September 2024 could give the UN a regular economic summit with the G20, an emergency platform, a digital compact and a declaration for future generations. Those gains will last only if governments and civil society coalitions keep working on them, perhaps through Charter review.
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Law of the Sea Tribunal delivers decision on Climate Change case
World Federalist Movement – Canada · May 2024
Complying with the Paris Agreement alone is not enough, say small island states and climate lawyers welcoming the ITLOS opinion, which also paves the way for climate cases at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the ICJ.
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Empowering Youth through Policy and Advocacy: WFM-Canada’s Youth Engagement Strategy
World Federalist Movement – Canada · April 2024
WFM-Canada’s Youth Representative Nada Abdallah attends the Ventotene International Seminar. The event brings global leaders together to discuss federalism’s role in global peace and sustainability.
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Feel at home! – Local Integration Programs for Immigrants and Refugees
World Federalist Movement · April 2024
Successful integration starts before newcomers arrive, by preparing local residents, and continues through language, schooling, work, health care and housing. Refugees should keep their own identity rather than vanish into a uniform society, and host communities gain from the mix.
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Mondial Winter 2023: Remembering Canadian World Federalists
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2023
Mary June Pettyfer, Canadian world federalist, died in 2023. Her life reflected commitment to global governance reform and addressing climate crisis.
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Imagine
December 2023
Religious leaders who travelled to Gaza, Israel and Ukraine, and stayed until each side accepted binding arbitration before a neutral international court, could break the cycle of attack and retaliation. What keeps the world from peace may be, in part, a failure of imagination.
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Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age
December 2023
Allen Pietrobon’s biography of Norman Cousins chronicles how the Saturday Review editor shaped Cold War peace advocacy through a network spanning Nikita Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, and John F. Kennedy, leading United World Federalists and co-founding the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Cousins brokered the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and dedicated decades to ending the wars in Vietnam and Biafra while arguing that nuclear weapons made world government a necessity.
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The Peacemakers: India’s Quest for One World
December 2023
Manu Bhagavan’s history, chosen by a world citizen book club, shows India’s independence leaders tying freedom from empire to a democratic One World, and India steering the creation of two separate human rights covenants.
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Toward the Summit of the Future: Building the UN We Need
December 2023
Dialogues and surveys reaching some 1.5 million people shaped the September 2024 summit, and civil society coalitions are drafting a People’s Pact to push leaders past old tools toward a UN fit for this century.
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European Economic Forum Speech
World Federalist Movement · September 2023
Deterring refugees does not work, and the EU has never shared the burden fairly among its members. Wealthy states should invest where people flee from, speed up asylum decisions, and set up a permanent international scheme for safe passage and agreed resettlement quotas.
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Daniel Ellsberg Remembrance (1931-2023)
Citizens for Global Solutions · September 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, renowned anti-nuclear analyst, is remembered for his wisdom and activism. His legacy includes pivotal contributions to nuclear disarmament and global federalist thought.
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The Parliaments of the World’s Religions
Citizens for Global Solutions · September 2023
The World Parliament of Religions convenes in Chicago to address global peace and justice. Over 7,000 participants from 100 countries engage in interfaith dialogue on war, human rights, and environmental issues.
