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Upcoming webinar: Canada's Human Rights Commitments

On Human Rights Day, December 10, 2018 at 12pm, WFMC will host a webinar on Canada’s Human Rights Commitments. This webinar will explore the commitments that Canada has made through...

TakeAction for November 2018: The International Criminal Court needs Canada's support

The 17th session of the annual meeting of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute will be held December 5 – 12, 2018 in The Hague. The...

Progress report on the National Action Plan on women, peace and security

Almost a year ago, the Government of Canada launched Canada’s second National Action Plan on women, peace and security (CNAP), which covers 2017-2022. The first progress report, which covers the...

Upcoming online events: #GivingTuesday and our next webinar

#GivingTuesday is on November 27 this year. GivingTuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Black Friday. You’ll hear more from us about our...

WFMC organizes ICC meeting

WFM – Canada has partnered with officials at Global Affairs Canada to organize a meeting among Canadian civil society representatives and members of the Canadian delegation to the Assembly of...

Inaugural lecture in the Warren Allmand Lecture Series

On October 18th, the inaugural lecture in the Warren Allmand Lecture Series was held in Montreal, with more than 250 people attending. The first lecture was given by John Ralston...

TakeAction for October 2018: An expanded leadership role for Canada at the United Nations

In March 2016 Prime Minister Trudeau announced Canada’s intention to seek election to a two-year term (2021-22) on the United Nations Security Council. Canada is in a three-way race, competing...

New publication from WFMC

The World Federalist Movement – Canada’s United Nations and Canada project has recently published a new document entitled What Canada Could and Should do at the United Nations 2018: A...

The International Criminal Court and the United States

Earlier this month, our TakeAction addressed US National Security Advisor John Bolton’s recent remarks about the International Criminal Court. (You can watch the speech or read the full text.) This...

Inaugural lecture of the Warren Allmand Lecture Series

This year mark’s the inaugural lecture of the Warren Allmand Lecture Series. It will be held on Thursday, October 18 at 6:00 pm at 900 de Maisonneuve West, 8th Floor,...

Canada co-hosts first meeting of women foreign ministers

Last week in Montreal, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland co-hosted, with Federica Mogherini, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union, the first ever meeting of...

Take Action: John Bolton and the International Criminal Court

On September 10th, United States National Security Advisor John Bolton gave a speech to the Federalist Society in which he spoke, at length and with numerous inaccuracies, about the International...

Women Foreign Ministers’ Meeting a First in Two Ways

Feminist activists share issues and priorities with the first-ever meeting of Women Foreign Ministers (Ottawa, September 26, 2018) A coalition of Canadian civil society organizations welcomes the successful conclusion of...

Remembering Kofi Annan

WFM – Canada joins with many others around the world in remembering the life of Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. The Kofi Annan...

National Peacekeepers' Day: Canada’s support for UN peace operations: Still a work in progress

With more than 104,000 military, police and civilian personnel now serving in 14 UN-led peacekeeping missions, the UN currently supports more troops in field operations than any actor in the...

Can we unite for peace?

pdf available by Keith Best If you are a peace activist you have to take the long view. Some suggest that real progress is made only in the wake of...