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The Pact for the Future: Steps Toward a Modernized United Nations
June 2024
UN reform comes rarely, and the draft Pact’s 52 actions are a modest start shaped by rival blocs of states. Engaged citizens’ groups, clear benchmarks and steady monitoring could turn its promises into a stronger, more capable UN.
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Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
World Federalist Movement · March 2024
Modern slavery affects millions globally. Governments and businesses must collaborate to eradicate this crime.
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Preventing the Expansion of the Gaza Conflict: Are Peace Brigades a Possibility?
World Federalist Movement · January 2024
With Gaza’s violence spreading to the West Bank and Lebanon, unarmed non-governmental teams placed on the frontier might give antagonists room to cool off. Past efforts in Nicaragua and the Gulf show both promise and limits, and recruiting and logistics would be hard.
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Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
Nargess Mohammadi, Iranian activist imprisoned in Evin, campaigns against gender-based violence and capital punishment. Her advocacy highlights systemic oppression and the struggle for women’s rights in Iran.
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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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From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
Citizens for Global Solutions · September 2023
Public alarm over fallout pushed Washington and Moscow into the 1963 test ban, and the treaties that followed cut arsenals from 70,000 warheads to about 12,500. A treaty banning nuclear weapons outright can halt the new arms race, if people demand it.
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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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Will Canada Champion Global Democracy?
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
Canada should champion a UN Parliamentary Assembly. The Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly has deep Canadian roots.
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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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An Integrated Movement: The necessary steps to unite the world
September 2021
A member of the Young World Federalists argues that the global federalist movement must overcome its internal fragmentation by uniting under a single umbrella, with shared branding, pooled membership, and a revitalized WFM-IGP, drawing on the experience of the movement-wide Working Group and the newly formed WFM-IGP Advisory Council. The author contends that operating in silos obscures the movement’s real strength and makes unified action on a world federation impossible.
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TakeAction for August 2021: National Peacekeepers Day and Canada’s UN Peacekeeping Commitments
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2021
Canada’s UN peacekeeping contribution ranks 68th globally. The WFMC Canadians for Peacekeeping campaign urges increased federal support for UN missions.
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Canada and UN Peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2021
Canada has 56 military and police personnel in UN operations, WFM–C’s annual fact sheet reports, while its campaign tracks whether Ottawa has kept the pledges made at the 2016 London and 2017 Vancouver peacekeeping ministerials.
