What World Day Against Trafficking in Persons Should Mean to Canadians
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2026
Canadians must confront human trafficking as a local crisis. Systemic inequalities fuel vulnerability and exploitation.
Gender and Equality
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Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
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Domestic Violence And Women’s Empowerment Initiatives: Exploring The Relationship In A Patriarchal Setting
Citizens for Global Solutions · March 2023
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A Speech on the International Women’s Day
World Federalist Movement · March 2023
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A True Servant of the People
World Federalist Movement · December 2021
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Mondial Summer 2020: Canada’s support for UN peace operations falls far short of government commitments
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2020
All articles in Gender and Equality
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Mondial Summer 2020: Update on Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2020
Canada’s 2017 to 2022 women, peace and security plan promises annual reports to Parliament by September. An election and then COVID-19 pushed the latest to June.
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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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What is UNDRIP?
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2020
UNDRIP outlines Indigenous rights in international law. Canada’s implementation of UNDRIP remains stalled.
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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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After the Canadian Federal Election: What next for foreign policy?
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2020
The Canadian Liberal Party outlines foreign policy priorities. The party pledges to renew peacekeeping commitments and support a rules-based international order.
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What we can expect following the federal election
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2019
The Liberal Party pledges to expand Canada’s role in multilateral organizations. The party commits to establishing a Canadian Centre for Peace, Order, and Good Government.
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The Women, Peace and Security agenda — and why it is important
June 2019
Peace deals signed by women last longer and are more fully carried out, yet women remain a sliver of mediators, negotiators and peacekeepers. Bringing more women into peace talks is the core aim of a Security Council effort launched in 2000.
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Towards the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
June 2019
Twenty-five years after 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, a chain of national reports, regional reviews, a civil society forum and UN meetings through 2020 aims to turn promises on women’s equality into ambitious, workable plans.
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ICRtoP Update
June 2019
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect advances atrocity prevention by linking the R2P norm to gender equality, hosting side events at the Commission on the Status of Women and the UN Security Council debate on protection of civilians. New UN Special Adviser on R2P Karen Smith, appointed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in December 2018, takes responsibility for developing the norm across the UN system.
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UN Security Council Resolution 2467 on sexual violence in conflict
World Federalist Movement – Canada · April 2019
Language on sexual and reproductive health, proposed by Germany, was dropped to avoid a US veto, which WFM–C says seriously undermines the ninth resolution under the women, peace and security agenda.
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Canada’s Human Rights Commitments
World Federalist Movement – Canada · April 2019
Senator Marilou McPhedran joined a December 2018 webinar on Canada’s human rights commitments and the project that documents them, now available to watch online, and readers can sign up for email updates when it changes.
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CNAP Update: First progress report and and an ambassador for women, peace and security
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2019
Progress on Canada’s second women, peace and security action plan is reported more thoughtfully than before, but objectives are rated without any stated method or targets. A promised ambassador for the file is welcome, though her duties remain unclear.
