Civil Society and Campaigns
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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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UNPA campaign update
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2017
Fifty-four Canadian MPs and Senators have endorsed the UNPA appeal, yet Canada has not formally backed a parliamentary assembly, though Commons foreign affairs committees have twice recommended it.
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The Women, Peace and Security Agenda – Canada prepares to renew its National Action Plan (June 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
Monique Cuillerier describes how Canadian civil society compared other countries’ women, peace and security plans, found disappointing consultation, funding and diaspora involvement, and shaped a two-day Ottawa consultation around those lessons.
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Update: The Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (June 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
A decade after launch, UNPA campaigners say opposing a UN assembly of elected representatives has grown hard, pointing to the European Parliament and other regional bodies as precedent.
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UN: Wrecking ball or transformation? (June 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
John E Trent argues that Trump’s hostility could break the UN’s reform logjam, and that Canada should lead a “UN Plus” effort with civil society while US dues fall from 22 per cent of the budget to 10 or 15.
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UN 2020: Will this be a Happy Birthday? (June 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
Major powers blocked reform at the UN’s 50th anniversary; at the 60th, the Peacebuilding Commission and the Responsibility to Protect followed. UN2020 campaigners want a reform process ready for the 75th.
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The Transnational Criminal Law in the Americas conference and further updates on the COPLA campaign (June 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
Florencia Gor describes a draft statute for a lean regional court whose judges and prosecutors are nominated and paid for by their states, with experts urging that forfeited assets help cover running costs.
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TakeAction for May 2017: Building Canada’s commitment to UN Peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · May 2017
Canada’s commitment to UN peacekeeping faces delays despite promises. Citizens are urged to contact Defence Minister Sajjan to push for action.
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TakeAction: Canada’s commitment to UN peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2017
Canada supplies 27 of 88,000 UN peacekeepers despite a pledge of up to 600 troops and 150 police, while combat commitments in Iraq and a NATO deployment to Latvia have grown.
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Canada and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: What Now?
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2016
Canada’s role in advancing the women, peace and security agenda faces gaps in global and national implementation. The committee calls for a new national action plan and UN institutional reform.
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António Guterres: The Next UN Secretary-General
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2016
Monique Cuillerier reports that campaigners for a woman Secretary-General were partly won over after meeting Guterres, whose team promises a woman from the global south as deputy and gender parity at all levels.
