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TakeAction for December 2020: Building a healthy environment

Calls for the right to a healthy environment International recognition of the right to a healthy environment is the subject of a number of different calls for endorsement aimed at...

Better Climate Governance: Improving the effectiveness of climate change negotiations

WFMC is a partner in the Better Climate Governance project, which seeks to improve the effectiveness of negotiations in addressing climate change and fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement...

WFMC President Dr Walter Dorn at the Senate foreign affairs committee

On December 16th, WFMC President Dr Walter Dorn appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade to speak on the topic of Bill S-2, An Act...

Next steps as 2020, the 75th anniversary year of the United Nations, comes to an end . . . .

With the end of 2020, it is time to announce a new name for the campaign. Beginning in the new year, the UN2020 Campaign will become the Coalition for the...

Mondial Summer 2020: Branch news

pdf available Montreal branch The WFMC Montreal Annual General Meeting has been postponed to the autumn, but vibrant monthly cafe discussions have continued via Zoom. Issues that have been discussed...

Mondial Summer 2020: Update on Canada's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

pdf available by Monique Cuillerier 2020 is the twentieth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, the first Security Council resolution to specifically address women, peace and security. It...

Mondial Summer 2020: Yikes! - Trump’s Middle-East “Peace Plan”

pdf available by Bill Pearce On 28 January, US President Trump held a press conference at the White House to announce his plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The plan,...

Mondial Summer 2020: Norman Dyson

pdf available Norman Dyson, Honorary President of the Toronto branch of WFMC, died on May 30th, 2020, at the age of eighty-eight. Dyson graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in...

ICC Update

pdf available The International Criminal Court is currently engaged in eight preliminary examinations, and has thirteen situations under investigation. Preliminary examinations are currently being conducted in Colombia, Guinea, Iraq/UK, Nigeria,...

Mondial Summer 2020: Book Review

pdf available Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes By Jennifer Trahan, Clinical Professor of Law, New York University Cambridge University Press, August...

Mondial Summer 2020: Book notice

pdf available Albert Einstein from Pacifism to the Idea of World Government Lucio Levi, editor (Federalism Volume 12; Centro Studi sul Federalismo) Peter Lang, Brussels, 2020 “Albert Einstein from Pacifism...

Mondial Summer 2020: U.S. attacks on ICC require a Canadian response

pdf available By Fergus Watt Only time will tell what will come of the recent escalation of hostilities between the U.S. government and the International Criminal Court (ICC). A June...

Mondial Summer 2020: Surviving Dystopia: World Federalism Eclipsed

pdf available Myron J. Frankman . . . what lies between us and extinction is horrifying enough, and we have not yet begun to contemplate what it means to live...

Mondial Summer 2020: Canada’s support for UN peace operations falls far short of government commitments

pdf available The Canada and UN Peacekeeping 2020 update, released each year on August 9 by WFMC, demonstrates that the number of Canadian peacekeepers has reached historically low levels. Canadian...

Mondial Summer 2020: The UN at 75: The world planned a party. . . . Then the coronavirus showed up.

pdf available Fergus Watt, UN2020 Campaign Coordinator & Jeffery Huffines, UN2020 Senior Advisor Since 2017 the UN2020 Campaign has provided a platform for a diverse constellation of civil society organizations...

Mondial Summer 2020: Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance

pdf available by Monique Cuillerier New and potential applications of artificial intelligence are often discussed in the media, sometimes as dystopian warnings and other times as indications of a hopeful,...