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World federalism for Belarus
Young World Federalists · August 2023
Isolation, nationalism and political imprisonment are growing in Belarus, and its government cannot find a way out. A democratic world federation would bring freedom of movement, global citizenship education, peace at the borders and enforceable human rights.
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What is our Journey?
World Federalist Movement · May 2023
Everyone has a conscience, religious or not, and rulers fear religion because it divides allegiance and teaches care for others. International law must stay universal and secular, yet it needs conscience to guide it and reconciliation between faiths.
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If Youth Is The Future, Why Don’t We Have A Say About It?
Citizens for Global Solutions · March 2023
Young people are nearly half the world’s population yet rarely sit where decisions about their future are made. A New York forum’s People’s Pact for the Future, headed for the UN Secretary-General, is a step, but youth want proposals taken seriously, not just consulted.
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New book explores global solutions to global problems
March 2023
Keith McNeil reviews ‘Breaking Boundaries’ by Johan Rockstrom and Owen Gaffney, a book and companion documentary on the planetary boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity. He highlights its case for global cooperation and notes where world federalists might extend the argument toward democratic global governance.
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Biodiversity: A Pledge, Now Action
March 2023
Rene Wadlow reports on the agreement reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal in December 2022, where delegates adopted a new Global Biodiversity Framework. He weighs the promise of the pledges, the role of civil society, and the risk that implementation and funding could fall short.
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Winter is coming in Ukraine: Are there prospects for peace?
March 2023
Peace in Ukraine will come through talks, not Russia’s total defeat, because humiliating a nuclear power is too dangerous. Canada, though no neutral party, could press NATO to downgrade its nuclear weapons and back a civil society peace platform.
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What is Peace?
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
Like love, peace means different things to different people, so its meaning has to rest on agreed law: the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute and human rights now accepted across every faith and culture.
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Remembrance and a demise of the demagogues?
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
Voters in Britain, Brazil and the US have begun turning on charismatic populists, a hopeful sign. Yet a wounded Russia may harden rather than soften, and until war is outlawed, free nations must stand firm for their values.
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Religion & Rights
World Federalist Movement · July 2022
Western individual rights and Asian collective ones are not at odds: Confucian and Islamic traditions both affirm what the Universal Declaration sets out. What the world still lacks is not agreement on rights but the means to enforce them.
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How important is our history?
World Federalist Movement · July 2022
Few nations can stand alone, wars leave problems unsolved, and public attitudes swing back and forth. Federalists should court business as well as governments, and be ready to bring a post-Putin Russia back into cooperation, the chance missed after the Cold War.
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Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour
World Federalist Movement · June 2022
Children who marched to Geneva in 1998 helped win an ILO convention against the worst child labour, now ratified by 165 states. Yet some 200 million children still work, many in debt bondage in South Asia, where the laws go unenforced.
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Mondial Interviews Amy Oloo, Incoming Executive Director of WFM-IGP
June 2022
Mondial interviews Amy Oloo, incoming Executive Director of WFM-IGP, on her priorities for the organization, which include rebuilding programs and finances after a period of institutional transition, centering youth and Global South voices, and pursuing pragmatic partnerships with other global governance NGOs. Oloo identifies UN Security Council reform as overdue but structurally difficult, and favors both improving existing institutions and building new, more inclusive ones.
