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The UN at 75: The world planned a party. . . . Then the coronavirus showed up.
June 2020
The article discusses the UN’s 75th anniversary commemoration, highlighting the initial plans for global dialogues and multilateralism. Despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the core push for renewing and strengthening the UN system remains strong.
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Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance
June 2020
This article examines the global governance implications of artificial intelligence, defining AI and discussing its current applications from smart assistants to spam filters. It highlights the need for multilateral oversight to ensure technological advances serve the common good and strengthen the rules-based global order.
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Women, Peace and Security Network – Canada update
World Federalist Movement – Canada · April 2020
Canada’s Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security, Jacqueline O’Neill, briefed civil society members on trips to Jordan and Africa, while the overdue action plan report has stalled the advisory group’s next meeting.
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A “Canadian Centre for Peace, Order and Good Government” – say, what?
World Federalist Movement – Canada · April 2020
The Canadian government launches a new peace and governance center. Details remain unclear as officials plan its structure and mandate.
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Women, peace and security update: Appointment of an Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2020
Canada’s first Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security took office in 2019 with a broad advisory mandate across nine ministries. Civil society has met her, the annual progress report is delayed by the election, and the Security Council adopted a new resolution.
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UN2020 Update (December 2019)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2020
With little hope of major UN reform by the September 2020 leaders’ summit, campaigners want the UN’s anniversary year to start a longer process of modernisation, and more than 80 organisations have drafted a plan of action for 2020.
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UN2020: Get Involved Now!
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2020
The UN75 campaign invites global participation through surveys and local conversations. Individuals and organizations can engage via social media or host community events.
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Update on the Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and the World Citizens’ Initiative
December 2019
A proposed World Citizens’ Initiative would let citizens put their own proposals to the General Assembly and the Security Council, on the model of Europe’s citizens’ initiative. With the UN’s 75th anniversary approaching, eighty NGOs have signed on, and a new report sets out a legal framework for it.
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Ventotene International Seminar: 36th edition
December 2019
Five days on the island where Spinelli wrote his manifesto for a united Europe showed that federalist debate, even among young Europeans of every background, stays an echo chamber without voices from the rest of the world.
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COPLA Update
December 2019
A proposed Latin American and Caribbean court against organized crime keeps gaining allies: Paraguay’s deputies, Ecuadorian parliamentarians, Argentina’s president at the UN, regional prosecutors and a Brazilian senator, on the argument that crime has outgrown national courts.
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Canada’s Federal Election: Engaging with candidates
World Federalist Movement – Canada · October 2019
Women’s rights, foreign aid, ecological justice and Indigenous rights each have a briefing from allied groups, while replies from the major parties to the movement’s own list will be posted as they arrive.
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Canada and UN Peacekeeping Update
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2019
WFMC highlights Canada’s declining peacekeeping role. The annual fact sheet underscores underfunding and short deployments in UN missions.
