Join the World Federalist Movement – Canada on Monday, June 6th at the Clocktower Brewhouse (575 Bank St) at 7pm. This month’s theme is peacekeeping. (May 29th is the International…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Canada’s adoption and implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
On August 11th, the WFMC 2016 World Peace Award was presented to Senator Murray Sinclair, former chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada as part of a program…
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…
Campaign for a Latin American Criminal Court for Transnational Organized Crime (COPLA)
At the World Social Forum, WFM-Canada and Democracia Global Argentina introduced the Campaign for the establishment of a Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court Against Transnational Organized Crime. The campaign…
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…
Canada at the UN
Canada’s participation at the opening of a new session of the UN General Assembly was noticeably different this year than under the previous government. Prime Minister Trudeau was accompanied by…