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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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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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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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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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Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security: What comes now (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
Annual progress reports and a civil society advisory group answer long-standing demands, but uneven departmental plans and a loose Theory of Change leave a gap between Canada’s WPS pledges and delivery.
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Important meeting for the ICC
World Federalist Movement – Canada · October 2017
Ratification of the Kampala amendments has passed the threshold, leaving a two-thirds vote of states parties to give the ICC power over aggression, while the Coalition presses for independent judges and more women on the bench.
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TakeAction: What will Canada can do to help the Rohingya?
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2017
The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar highlights the need for global action. Canada and the international community must push for accountability and end violence through R2P mechanisms.
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Current events at the International Criminal Court
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2017
International Justice Day marks the adoption of the Rome Statute as a reminder of the fight against impunity; the Coalition for the International Criminal Court marked it with a #WarAfterWar video.
