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TakeAction for November 2021: Open Letter on the Climate Crisis

Youth climate change activists pen an open letter to world leaders calling on them to “face up to the climate emergency” Approximately 1.8 million people have signed the viral open...

Welcome Our New Staff!

Erica Wilson, BA, MGA The WFM-Canada welcomes Erica as our new Director of Media and Communications. In 2020, she graduated from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy,...

TakeAction for October 2021: Week for World Parliament

October 21st to 28th 2021 is the Week for World Parliament! The WFM-Canada believes in reforming systems of global governance to better respond to global crises like climate change and...

Oct 13th Event on Better Climate Governance

BETTER CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: HOW TO IMPROVE CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS

New WFM-Canada Executive Director

With the retirement of the dedicated, visionary and long-serving Fergus Watt, and his moving to further work on the Coalition for the UN We Need project, the World Federalist Movement...

World Federalist Questions for the 2021 Federal Election

A federal election has been called for September 20th. During federal campaigns, WFMC surveys the federal political parties about their positions on specific areas of interest to World Federalists. The...

The Current Situation in Afghanistan

An open letter on support for women human rights defenders and LGBTQ rights defenders in Afghanistan was organized earlier this month by the Women, Peace and Security Network – Canada....

WFMC Toronto Branch Zoom events

The Economics of Kindness: A Ten-Year Transition to a New Ecological Civilization September 15 20217pm EDT As part of a series of World Federalist discussions on better global governance, Toronto...

TakeAction for August 2021: National Peacekeepers Day and Canada's UN Peacekeeping Commitments

Last Monday, August 9th, was National Peacekeepers Day. Each year, WFMC marks the day with the release of an update of our Canada and UN Peacekeeping fact sheet. The fact...

Canada and UN Peacekeeping

Each year, WFMC releases an update of our Canada and UN Peacekeeping fact sheet to mark National Peacekeepers’ Day on August 9th.The fact sheet includes details about Canada’s contributions in...

Falling behind on the Sustainable Development Goals

The UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) met from July 6 to 15 to review progress in meeting Agenda 2030, the 15-year plan that was negotiated in 2015...

Human Rights and Climate Change

Earlier this year an open letter from over 500 national, regional and international civil society organizations (including WFM – Canada), called for the creation of a UN Human Rights Council...

WFMC Toronto Branch Event: The Economics of Kindness: A Ten-Year Transition to a New Ecological Civilization

September 15 20217pm EDTZoomAs part of a series of World Federalist discussions on better global governance, Toronto Branch will be hosting an online talk by Guy Dauncey on September 15,...

Day of International Criminal Justice and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court

On the Day of International Criminal Justice, July 17th, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, of which WFMC is a member, released a statement that says, in part: “This...

Democratizing global governance

The NGO Democracy International is hosting a series of webinars discussing ways the United Nations can become more inclusive and democratic. Earlier this year Democracy International joined CIVICUS and Democracy...

New ICC Prosecutor Sworn In

On June 16th, Karim Asad Ahmad Khan became the third Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. In his first remarks as Prosecutor, Khan said “The Rome Statute architecture is a...