Civil Society and Campaigns
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Update: UN Parliamentary Assembly Campaign
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
The European Parliament endorses a UN Parliamentary Assembly to enhance global governance. Ireland expresses openness to UNPA reforms for better UN effectiveness.
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Update: Peacekeeping and Canada
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Canada re-engages in UN peacekeeping with a new aviation task force in Mali. The deployment marks progress but raises questions about long-term commitment and efficiency.
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UN2020 update: Toward a 75th anniversary of UN renewal and reform
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
The UN2020 Summit aims to renew multilateralism through a General Assembly-led process. A 2020 summit could address current crises in global governance and strengthen the UN’s role.
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The Rome Statute at 20
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
A year of events marking twenty years since the Rome Statute opened in The Hague with a call for diagnosis, not self-congratulation. The Coalition for the International Criminal Court urged governments and civil society to strengthen support for the Court.
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COPLA Update Regional governments agree to study proposed criminal court
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Regional justice and security ministers have agreed to study a criminal court against organized crime, in a region with about a third of the world’s murders but 9% of its people. Over 3,000 signatories and 40 institutions already back the proposal.
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Canada and peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · June 2018
Canada deploys 250 peacekeepers to Mali amid questions about its UN mission commitment. The WFMC campaign calls for increased support of UN peace operations.
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UN2020: Preparing the UN2020 Summit
World Federalist Movement – Canada · May 2018
Core principles for renewing the UN system and a Call to Action are on offer from UN2020, a campaign run by CIVICUS, the Stimson Center, the Workable World Trust and WFM-IGP, as General Assembly co-chairs table a zero draft resolution.
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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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Update: The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
Endorsements for a UN Parliamentary Assembly passed 1,500 legislators in 2017, with fresh backing from the Pan-African Parliament, the European Parliament and others. The UN’s 75th anniversary in 2020 is seen as the moment to put it on the agenda.
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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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Democracy Without Borders: A new approach towards world federalism (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly advances global democracy through federalist reform. A UN Parliamentary Assembly is seen as a tool for long-term democratization and integration.
