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Canada's involvement with UN peace operations

August 9th was National Peacekeepers Day in Canada and WFMC marked the day with a press release and the update of our annual Canada and UN Peacekeeping Fact Sheet. The...

World Social Forum and WFMC Annual General Meeting

The 2016 World Social Forum (WSF) took place August 9 – 14 in Montreal. The Forum was spread out among four universities in downtown Montreal. Over 35 000 activists from...

Canada’s support for UN peace operations: Still Missing in Action

Canada’s rank among contributors to UN peace operations remains low. As of June 30, 2016, Canada is 67th with only 31 military personnel and 75 police officers in the field....

WFMC at the World Social Forum

The World Social Forum is happening this week, from August 9th to 14th, in Montreal. WFMC will be there on August 11th and 12th. August 11th WFMC’s Annual General Meeting...

UN Accountability Pledge

Co-ordinated by the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and AIDS-Free World, thirty-seven civil society organizations have signed a letter calling on the candidates for the next UN Secretary-General...

UN conducts first straw poll of prospective S-G candidates

On July 21 the UN Security Council conducted the first straw poll of candidates aspiring to be the ninth secretary-general of the organization. UN-watchers hoping that the organization would select...

Peacekeeping and UNEPS

Erika Simpson, an associate professor of international relations at the University of Western Ontario, had an opinion piece in the London Free Press last week titled, “Canada should jump-start a...

Women, peace and security in the International Assistance Review

Earlier this month, the Women, Peace and Security Network – Canada (WPSN-C) hosted an informal consultation on “Mainstreaming the WPS Agenda: A Consultation on Feminist Approaches to Peace and Security...

TakeAction: 17 July, International Justice Day

The Day of International Criminal Justice marks the anniversary of the adoption on 17 July 1998 of the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, which seeks...

Pitching UNEPS

WFM – Canada Executive Director Fergus Watt provided a presentation on the proposed UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) at a forum in New York on “The UN Security Council –...

Call to Action on Nuclear Weapons

A meeting in May of members of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons resulted in a widely circulated “Call to Action” that outlined measures that the new Government of...

1 for 7 Billion Update

Earlier in June, the UN General Assembly held a second round of hearings, as they considered two new candidates: Miroslav Lajčák, the Foreign Minister of Slovakia, and Susana Malcorra, the...

WFMC Annual General Meeting and the World Social Forum

The World Federalist Movement – Canada will be participating in the World Social Forum, which runs from August 9 to 14. The WSF is expected to attract over 50,000 participants,...

International Criminal Court Update

On June 21st, the ICC sentenced Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo to 18 years of imprisonment. He had been found guilty in March as a military commander responsible for crimes against humanity...

Defence and Aid Policy Reviews

Amongst the various consultations and policy reviews that the federal government is currently undertaking, are a defence policy review and an international assistance review. Defence Policy Review The defence policy...

Canada needs to do more to support UN Peacekeeping

The new Liberal government has indicated that Canada intends to dedicate more resources and personnel to United Nations Peacekeeping. But will they? So far, Canada’s interest in UN peace operations...

World Federation Through the Gradual Accession of Willing States

World Federation Through The Gradual Accession of Willing StatesSummary of a presentation by Alec Neilly, Board of Directors of the Young World Federalists, to the Toronto Branch of the World...

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Greening the World Economy For A Sustainable Future

Themes in Seth Klein’s Presentation and Discussion with The Toronto Branch of the World Federalist Movement of Canada on April 12th, 2022. Based on his recent book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for...

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Global Climate Accountability

Summary of Elizabeth May’s Zoom Presentation to the World Federalist Movement Canada, Toronto Branch on May 18, 2021. Her presentation was about a tale of two treaties. The first was...

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Reforming International Economic Institutions, For a More Prosperous, Just And Sustainable World Economic Order

Responding to the financial distress of the Great Depression and World War II, nations came together in 1944 at a conference in Bretton Woods, USA, to create an international monetary...

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